~COMPLIMENT A FRIEND FRIDAY~
Mark it on the Calendar!
Friday, February 14th: Happy Valentine's Day
Friday, February 14th - Monday, February 17th: Mid-Winter Break - No School Friday & Monday
Monday, February 17th: President's Day
1st Grade: PERSUASIVE WRITING:
This week the students focused on revising and editing their formal piece of writing. For revising, we discussed making sure we had 3 strong reasons. We also looked to see if we repeated a word often and if it could be replaced with a better choice. For editing, we focused on capital letters and ending punctuation.
Then, they were asked to switch with a partner to learn how to peer edit. This just allows a second set of eyes to review their paper for items they may have missed. Our last step for the week was to turn it into our final draft.
We decided to give our hands a break from writing and explored the app Pages. This app allowed the students to type their paper. Pages allows students to add drawings and images into a presentation and even record their voice reading the paper. They did a great job learning the different features of this app. The assignment is on their iPads, so when you have a moment (if they haven't already) ask them to share it with you.
We will start a new lesson next week.
2nd Grade: MY FATHER'S DRAGON:
This week we had to complete one more box on their reading analyzer. Last week we discussed it, but ran out of time to write it out. We had to complete the main idea - we decided that the orange peels were an important part of chapter 4 because it made animals think there was an invasion. We also noted that the chapter mentioned this was the start of Elmer's real trouble. From there the students enjoyed a read aloud. We would pause and reflect at different items that would have completed sections in a reading analyzer for chapter 5. We also paused to make a prediction when Elmer was in trouble with the tigers. We noticed a pattern that Elmer continues to use these weird supplies he packed for the trip to get him out of trouble. This led us to discuss that Alley Cat had been through this before and made sure Elmer was prepared for any situation. We referred back to chapter 2 and created a list of supplies and will continue to use this list to guide our predictions.
We will continue with our book study next week.
3rd Grade: BLACK BEAUTY:
This week we utilized our class time to complete some vocabulary. Their book study is grouped into sets of 10 chapters. Before moving onto each group, we will always take time to preview the vocabulary to help us understand any tricky words prior to reading them.
Next week we will begin our journey with Black Beauty.
4th Grade: IT'S A MYSTERY:
We have just enough time to crack our last clue. We found a clue of powdered sugar left on the desk drawer. This made us solve a puzzle to see who at a dessert that used powdered sugar as an ingredient. From that moment, the students completed an activity to see who had an alibi. This let them discover that one person was with a person who wasn't even at the house at the time they gave us - so there was no way they were watching the television together. Every other person was with someone at the time of the crime which cleared the other 3 suspects.
Next week they will begin their book study.
1st Grade: MATH:
My math friends did not meet this week.
2nd Grade: BUBBLE FUN WITH SHAPES:
This week we completed our bubble activity with the 3D shapes. First, the students watched a short video to remind them of our project. It even showed them one of the inside shapes. This video also introduced the hyper-cube. Then, the students completed their predictions. Next, it was time to explore with our 3D shapes. We began to look at each shape one at a time to see what shape would form in the inside.
We ran into a problem that some of our larger shapes were popping as we pulled them out. For our second day, we switched to some smaller models and we were successful! The students were able to see the shape that formed inside each shapes. To end the day, we attempted to make a hypercube.
This is when we take the square inside the cube and with a straw blow air inside to create a cube inside a cube or hypercube. After several attempts, the students were excited to see a hypercube. Each student was given a few tries to create a hypercube. They quickly saw why it took me a few attempts, but I am happy to say we had a few students create a hypercube.
Next week we will wrap up this lesson.
WARNING: Picture overload the students assisted as photographers this week while I was busy demonstrating - Enjoy!
ATTEMPTING A HYPER-CUBE:
3rd Grade: ARROW MATH:
This week the students were introduced to Arrow Math. Arrows were given to the different movements surrounding a number on the chart. Similar to the 100 chart where we discovered rules like minus 11, minus 10, minus 9, minus 1, plus 1, plus 9, plus 10, and plus 11, the students had to discover the rule to a chart with 7 columns. We picked one number and looked at the relationship of the numbers surrounding it and quickly discovered the new rules to apply to this chart. Arrow math assigned an arrow to each of these movements. When the students see the arrow the students would complete the computation to move to that number on the number chart. They completed several different activities with arrow math this week. It also introduced an important term - inverse operation. We saw arrows undo a previous step. This introduced us to this term. The students had to explain why a set of arrows would return them to the starting number.
Next week the students will complete their chapter check-up.
4th Grade: THINK DEEPLY:
It was time to complete our Think Deeply. The students were asked to talk about the similarities and differences with two ordered pairs: (3,7) and (-3,-7). Together, we brainstormed a list of ideas about them. Then, the students took the class thoughts and turned them into their Think Deeply. We took some time out on Thursday to complete a Zaccaro packet.
Friday, February 14th - Monday, February 17th: Mid-Winter Break - No School Friday & Monday
Monday, February 17th: President's Day
1st Grade: PERSUASIVE WRITING:
This week the students focused on revising and editing their formal piece of writing. For revising, we discussed making sure we had 3 strong reasons. We also looked to see if we repeated a word often and if it could be replaced with a better choice. For editing, we focused on capital letters and ending punctuation.Then, they were asked to switch with a partner to learn how to peer edit. This just allows a second set of eyes to review their paper for items they may have missed. Our last step for the week was to turn it into our final draft.
We decided to give our hands a break from writing and explored the app Pages. This app allowed the students to type their paper. Pages allows students to add drawings and images into a presentation and even record their voice reading the paper. They did a great job learning the different features of this app. The assignment is on their iPads, so when you have a moment (if they haven't already) ask them to share it with you.
2nd Grade: MY FATHER'S DRAGON:
This week we had to complete one more box on their reading analyzer. Last week we discussed it, but ran out of time to write it out. We had to complete the main idea - we decided that the orange peels were an important part of chapter 4 because it made animals think there was an invasion. We also noted that the chapter mentioned this was the start of Elmer's real trouble. From there the students enjoyed a read aloud. We would pause and reflect at different items that would have completed sections in a reading analyzer for chapter 5. We also paused to make a prediction when Elmer was in trouble with the tigers. We noticed a pattern that Elmer continues to use these weird supplies he packed for the trip to get him out of trouble. This led us to discuss that Alley Cat had been through this before and made sure Elmer was prepared for any situation. We referred back to chapter 2 and created a list of supplies and will continue to use this list to guide our predictions.We will continue with our book study next week.
3rd Grade: BLACK BEAUTY:
This week we utilized our class time to complete some vocabulary. Their book study is grouped into sets of 10 chapters. Before moving onto each group, we will always take time to preview the vocabulary to help us understand any tricky words prior to reading them. Next week we will begin our journey with Black Beauty.
4th Grade: IT'S A MYSTERY:
Next week they will begin their book study.
1st Grade: MATH:
My math friends did not meet this week.
2nd Grade: BUBBLE FUN WITH SHAPES:
This week we completed our bubble activity with the 3D shapes. First, the students watched a short video to remind them of our project. It even showed them one of the inside shapes. This video also introduced the hyper-cube. Then, the students completed their predictions. Next, it was time to explore with our 3D shapes. We began to look at each shape one at a time to see what shape would form in the inside.
We ran into a problem that some of our larger shapes were popping as we pulled them out. For our second day, we switched to some smaller models and we were successful! The students were able to see the shape that formed inside each shapes. To end the day, we attempted to make a hypercube.
This is when we take the square inside the cube and with a straw blow air inside to create a cube inside a cube or hypercube. After several attempts, the students were excited to see a hypercube. Each student was given a few tries to create a hypercube. They quickly saw why it took me a few attempts, but I am happy to say we had a few students create a hypercube.
Next week we will wrap up this lesson.
WARNING: Picture overload the students assisted as photographers this week while I was busy demonstrating - Enjoy!
ATTEMPTING A HYPER-CUBE:
3rd Grade: ARROW MATH:
This week the students were introduced to Arrow Math. Arrows were given to the different movements surrounding a number on the chart. Similar to the 100 chart where we discovered rules like minus 11, minus 10, minus 9, minus 1, plus 1, plus 9, plus 10, and plus 11, the students had to discover the rule to a chart with 7 columns. We picked one number and looked at the relationship of the numbers surrounding it and quickly discovered the new rules to apply to this chart. Arrow math assigned an arrow to each of these movements. When the students see the arrow the students would complete the computation to move to that number on the number chart. They completed several different activities with arrow math this week. It also introduced an important term - inverse operation. We saw arrows undo a previous step. This introduced us to this term. The students had to explain why a set of arrows would return them to the starting number.Next week the students will complete their chapter check-up.
4th Grade: THINK DEEPLY:
It was time to complete our Think Deeply. The students were asked to talk about the similarities and differences with two ordered pairs: (3,7) and (-3,-7). Together, we brainstormed a list of ideas about them. Then, the students took the class thoughts and turned them into their Think Deeply. We took some time out on Thursday to complete a Zaccaro packet.
Have A Great Weekend,
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