1st Grade: Magical Anagrams:
This week the students were introduced to anagrams. To introduce the idea, we started with the letters O, S, T, & P. on displayed on the board. As a class, we brainstormed the six different words we can create from these 4 words. This activity demonstrated to the students the definition of an anagram. An anagram is a word or phrase formed for the rearrangement of letters in another work. Then we looked at several examples to practice creating anagrams. To end the week, we read The Great Show-and-Tell Disaster by Mike Reiss. The students enjoyed this story as it was full of lots of humor and entertainment with all the anagrams.
We will continue to work with anagrams next week.
2nd Grade: The Tale of Despereaux:
We started a project to look at character traits and text evidence. As a class, we took Gregory and we came up with some character traits for him. Then, we went to the book to look for text evidence to support our thoughts. We included a page number to show where we found our evidence. Then, we took our other characters and brainstormed a list of character traits for students to guide them as they complete it on their own. To end the week, we started to watch the The Tale of Despereaux. While watching the movie, the students completed a VENN diagram to compare the book to the movie. Quickly in the first 30 minutes they have already filled their sheets and have seen LOTS of differences between the two.
We will continue with the movie next week.
3rd Grade: Grammar Time:
It was all about pronouns! This week we looked at an excerpt from a tall tale and identified all the nouns, action verbs and pronouns. Then, the students took the pronouns and had to draw and arrow back to the noun it replaced. The next day we continued to look at pronouns. I challenged them further and we talked about subject/object pronouns and possessive pronouns. We slowly walked through a few more examples identifying different parts of speech in a sentence and then discussing what we saw with the pronoun.
4th Grade: Change Maker:
We had a great week full of research! This week we started to gather the information for our timeline. Together, we walked through the life of Marie Curie as we gathered the important parts of her life. While we were completing this step, we wrote down several obstacles that stood out that we will add into our summary packet and a few details to add to the time period question.
We will continue to work with this project next week.
1st Grade: Angles All Around:
2nd Grade: Attributes:
This week our focus was describing our 2-dimenstional shapes. The discussion was driven by attributes we can use to define the different shapes. Our main features to describe our shapes were sides, vertices, angles, parallel lines, and they are all flat. We constructed 6 shapes and then began to identify the attributes to describe our set of shapes.
We will add onto this lesson next week.
3rd Grade: It's Puzzle Time:
This week the students were given a project-based think deeply. They had to create their own 100's chart puzzles like what they solved last week with the 700's chart. They created their own 300's chart to use as a reference as they took cut-outs out of the chart. Then, they created their own puzzles that their classmates will solve next week. This of course was where they were up for some trickery, as they wanted to stump their classmates with their puzzles. To wrap up the project, they had to also create an answer key to their puzzles.
We will continue with this project next week.
4th Grade: Logic Puzzles:
This week the students were introduced to their first logic puzzle of the year. We took a pause from our math unit to let them work on solving the logic puzzle. Some of my friends may have seen this puzzle before, but we walked through it together. We like to share this with the 4th graders with the challenge of completing it on their own. It is all about deciphering a set of 7 clues. The trick is finding the hidden clues and you must go back and rework the clues several times as more is found in the clues after you start to solve parts of the puzzle. It takes lots of patience to solve this puzzle.
We will continue to solve this puzzle next week.
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