1st Grade:
Persuasion Paper
This week we continued working on our persuasion
writing. It was time for us to take our
hamburger organizer and turn it into a paragraph. Our organizer was full of our ideas and now
we had to turn them into complete thoughts.
We worked on incorporating transition words into our sentences. They did a great job! Next week will complete this project.
2nd Grade: The Tale of Despereaux:
We completed Book the Second and hearing the story of
Roscurro. We have now left his story on
pause with Despereaux and our learning about one more character - Mig. Roscurro introduced us to the topic of if a
person’s heart is broken can they change.
They also heard the story explaining why the King was so mean in Book
the First – he too has a broken heart. Mig is that last piece to our puzzle before we can tie all three of our characters destinies together! We will continue our book study next week.
3rd Grade: More Noun Fun:
This week we continued our noun hunt fun. We discussed how identifying a preposition in
the sentence will help them know a noun or pronoun is coming because of
prepositional phrases. They can serve as
another signal word like our articles. They went through and sorted the nouns they found into person, place thing or idea. We will wrap up our noun hunt next week.
4th Grade:
A Change Maker:
This week they selected a person for their change maker
project. This project will consist of
several different parts coming together into a final presentation. They will work in partners as they complete
this assignment. Our first step is to
research. This week and next we will be
gathering and reading our sources on our change maker. It will be all about reading, so not many
details to share in the blog. We will
continue with our research next week.
1st Grade: Think Deeply:
This week we played one more round of Groupo because we had
lots of friends miss last week with a field trip. They did a GREAT job on the day 2 or 3 for
the students and are really learning to explain their shapes as they discussed
their pairs. We moved onto our Think
Deeply to wrap up the lesson. The students were challenged with selecting a
card from Groupo and creating a shape that would create a match. Will will finish this assignment next week.
2nd Grade: Tessellations:
This week the students were challenged with creating a
tessellation by transforming a basic unit around a triangle grid. First, we had to determine what shapes we
could use that would fit into our grid.
Then, each student created a basic unit by selecting 2 or more of our
shapes that they were going to piece together to create a new shape. Next, it was onto creating the
tessellation. They had to decide what transformations
they could use with their shape to move it around their grid. They could select a movement moving it from
left to right on the grid. Then, they
chose a movement to move the shape down the grid. Their designs are coming alone nicely! We will finish these next week and dig
further into the transformations that created their tessellations.
3rd Grade:
Review & 100's Charts:
We took some time out of class to review our answers from
the chapter check-up. A common error I
saw with some students was forgetting to find the starting number when working
with a function. We also had to have a
quick discussion on what makes a growing patter and repeating pattern
different. We moved onto our next lesson
which was all about seeing patterns in algebra in a different way. In chapter one, our patterns were in tables
and now we are exploring patterns in charts and arrays. This chapter will focus on us looking at patterns in 100's charts. Patterns will continue to be a theme we work
with in our algebra unit as we are making them see the why it
works. We will continue to work with
this lesson next week.
4th Grade: Variable Puzzles & Zaccaro:
This week and next week will be a slight mash-up as we have
a field trip taking away half of the students this week and next. On Wednesday, we will continue with our
lessons, but on Thursday each group will complete an enrichment activity. On Wednesday, the whole group finished their
variable puzzles. They saw a twist with
our last problem as there was no way to set up an equation with a number and a
variable to solve the puzzle. After a
little more thinking, students quickly spotted an equation where they could
figure out the values based on their only being one solution to solve it for
each letter:
W + W + Z
= 4
1 + 1 + 2 = 4
Next week, we will wrap up this lesson.
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