This week was a very cool week! Here is what we were up to.
In Writing, we started publishing our realistic fiction stories. We are typing on laptops using google docs. We are enjoying the typing.In Math, we are studying decimals and how they relate to fractions. We learned more place value and that to the right of the ones place is a decimal point and then tenths and hundredths (and even thousandths). We have been practicing writing decimals as fractions and as base ten blocks with the flat being one, the base ten block being a tenth and the cube being a hundredth.
In Reading, we are still in our Short Story Unit. We have been learning about plot and read Mr. Lincoln's Way by Patricia Polacco. We learned about the different parts of plot: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion. We've been meeting in our Reading Groups too.
In Science, we've been learning about volcanoes and earthquakes and got to watch some brainpop videos. We are looking forward to different units where we'll get to study rocks and minerals. Next up, we're studying the South East.
In other news, we made a movie for All School Meeting showing what it looks like to follow the rule, "Do your best work" in the classroom. The movie will be shown at All School Meeting on Wednesday. We also had Dr. Curran visit as a guest teacher. She taught us a game called "Ly"where we acted out a describing word that ended in 'ly. The class then guessed and by the end of the game we had a whole whiteboard filled with describing words. Here are some pictures:
Another cool thing was that on Thursday we had Understanding Our Differences and got to learn about different ways that people learn. There were two speakers, Dana and Rae who had ADHD.
Have a great weekend and Thanksgiving if we don't blog before then!
See ya in one-two weeks!
Shira, Sabrina, Samantha & Ms. Swaim
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