Welcome Back! I have mixed things up a bit on the blog. Instead of looking for your grade under language arts or math, you will now find it organized under grade with language arts and math under separated underneath.
Monday, January 17: No School - Martin Luther King Jr Day
Friday, February 18: No School - Winter Break
Monday, February 21: No School - Winter Break
LANGUAGE ARTS: We dove right into a new lesson. We started with a sheet the students completed where they had to think of a word or phrase to replace another word with a similar meaning. However, there was a catch they could not use the letter "E". They were also encouraged to make sure the new word was in the same tense as the word it replaced. This led into a mini review on past, present and future tense. To end the week, the students decoded the secret message. It was the Secret Pie Cipher Wheel. We had one student successfully solve it without any hints! Most of the rest of them solved it after we broke down a few of the hints. This took us up to the last minute of class, so next week we will discuss the meaning of their secret message.
MATH: This week the students took what we learned about the one-loop game and applied it to geometry. They were given a set of shapes with labels to create different scenarios for their classmates to guess what was the same on the inside. They mastered this quickly. Then each student created their own loop game on a worksheet where they had to place 3 shapes on the inside and 3 on the outside that would let another student guess their label. The students took turns sharing their game on the projector for the class to guess the label. Next week we will add on another loop.
LANGUAGE ARTS: These guys were rock stars this week! We had a final project to complete from the Tale of Despereaux and I was worried if they would remember it after break. They did! We revisited our character trait project from their favorite character from the movie. This week they finished selecting the traits and finding the support from the book. We will finish with the construction of the character next week.
MATH: This week we had some multiplication review. I used this as a baseline to see where they were all at with their multiplication facts and this will be used to set up an individualized practice plan for each student. This way they can work at their own level and when ready move up to division! Then we went into a review of our 2D and 3D attributes. This les us into the shape game. I let the students play to become familiar with describing attributes and identifying shapes based on hearing those attributes. This lets the students master their definitions of their shapes while enjoying the game! When it is your turn, you have 2D and 3D shapes to select from with the goal of getting the other students to identify it based on your clues. They can describe the shape by its vertices, sides, edges, faces, or base. Today we focused on what key words you should listen for to know if you are guessing a 2D or 3D shape. Also, if it is 3D what they should listen for to decide if it is a prism or pyramid. For the first time, they did a great job! We have some work to do on shape names, but we will get there.
LANGUAGE ARTS: We paused for break in the middle of a lesson, so we continued with our Edmond Fitzgerald project. This week they continued to create a drawing to show the mood from the song. We watched a documentary to hear some more of the history behind our story. We will wrap up their drawings next week.
MATH: This week we took a pause from our unit and focused on long division. These guys are always up for the challenge and are determined to master long division. This week we focused on dividing a 3-digit number by a one digit. After walking through 4 problems together they were up for the challenge to completing it on their own. We have a grid they use to help them walk through the steps, but for the last problem they were challenged to complete it without the grid. Eureka!! They did it!
LANGUAGE ARTS: This week we continued with our biography project. We had to put a few more finishing touches on our timelines this week. Then they added all their labels onto the project.
Next week we will begin the final step to our project.
MATH: This week the students continued with their logic puzzles. They were excited to continue with their puzzles because they are so close to solving the puzzle. We reached the part where they all asked for some help because they got stuck. We will take a few minutes to walk through all the clues and see what each one should have given them before moving onto our next lesson.
Ms. Losinski
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