Week of December 10th

***I will be sending home the unit 3 math tests on Thursday. If students can bring the tests back by Friday, before we leave for winter break, I would really appreciate it! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!
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***Also, this time of the year is a busy one since we will be finishing up a few units before the break. If your child will not be in school on Friday, please send an email letting me know. This will help me plan accordingly! Thanks!
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Social Studies
Written by: Stacey

• We learned about our regions project and we learned about the rubric. We got to choose our topics for the project.
• We started researching our topic using books the next day. We all have a landmark, landform, waterway, and a natural resource to report on.
• On Thursday and Friday, we researched on computers.

Reading
Written by: Parsa, Keith

• The whole class learned how to turn headings into questions. This can help you find main idea of a section.
• Tuesday the class learned how to become experts on something and how to teach others about it.
• Wednesday, we learned that paraphrasing is when you put something in your own words. If you do this, it will help you remember the fact longer.
• Next, we learned how to move from the facts to bigger ideas. We read an article about a girl named Garana and how she is an Afghan refugee. There were lots of facts about her life but overall she had a hard life.

Writing
Written by:Derek, Tommy

• On Monday we planned our beginning, middle and end of our stories. We are going to give it to someone as a present.
• On Tuesday we wrote three different leads for our story and we picked one to use.
• On Wednesday we talked about the dialogue rules and we started to draft our stories.
• On Thursday we learned how to slow down are writing. We found the heart of our stories and that’s where we will slow down time.
• On Friday, we reviewed sensory details. We worked together as a class to revise boring sensory details.   

 

Math
Written by: Cassidy,

• On Monday we reviewed things we have done in this past unit like arrays, partial products and partial quotients for our test on Tuesday.
• On Tuesday, we had a  math test on what we learned.
• On Wednesday we started our new unit on measurement. We measured around the classroom to find benchmark measurements. We used the benchmark measurements to estimate the length of things in the classroom. Then we found the real length.
• On Thursday we made an anchor chart on the U.S standard versus the metric system. We also used our homework to come up with times when we estimate measurements or when we find the exact ones.  
• On Friday, we had a workshop with Logopaths, finding perimeter and an assessment with Mrs. Stygles where you have to measure the length of the classroom.