Week of December 3rd

Social Studies
Written by: Tommy, Keith and Brien

• The class wrote a rough draft postcard from a location from their region. We did this to teach everyone about our region.
• We wrote our final copy of are postcard and put the picture and postcard together.
• We took notes on the natural resources from our regions in our notes packet.
• Today we took notes on the landmarks from our regions in our note packet with the rest of our regions group.

Reading
Written by: James,Annie,Derek

• On Monday we sorted interesting versus important ideas.
• Tuesday we pretended we were THIEVES using text features to predict and find the main idea of paragraphs.
• On Thursday we learned boxes and bullets and we found the main idea about Pompeii, which was fun to learn about.
• On Friday we did boxes and bullet to find the main idea of paragraphs from an article about Pearl Harbor and Japanese Internment Camps.

Writing
Written by: Stacey,Amy

• On Monday we worked on stretching out our dot and jots in our persuasive essay.
• On Tuesday we added transition words to our persuasive piece of writing.
• The next day we learned how to vary our sentence lengths.
• Our class revised, edited, and published our persuasive piece.
• Today we picked our personal narrative topic and some of us finished our persuasive essay.

Choosing a topic - Slice of the Pie

Math
Written by: Cassidy, Paris

• On Monday we practiced multiplication and discussed what it means to add zero in the powers of ten rules.
• On Tuesday we learned how to use doubles and halves with Mrs.Stygles and Mrs. Gillis
• On Wednesday we made our power of ten posters in groups of threes and fours. We solved multiplication with cluster problems in small groups.
• On Thursday we did a workshop of three stations. Station one was Ms.Herlihy with quotient cafe where we practiced partial quotients.The second station was with Mrs. Stygles’s where we worked in our math workbooks on counting around the class. Then we had some independent work to do with division.
• On Friday, we began reviewing for our math test, which is Tuesday, December 11th.

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