Week of December 17th and January 2nd

Holiday Party

I want to thank Mrs. McCusker and Mrs. Cox for planning our holiday party. The students played "Minute to Win It" games and had a blast! Enjoy the photos!

 

 

 

Social Studies
Written by: Jack C., Liam, James and Parsa  ,  brien, Keith

• On Monday, the class learned how to take our notes and turn it into a paragraph.
• On Tuesday, we did our landmark captions for our regions project.
• On Thursday, the class did our natural resources caption for our regions project.
• When we came back, we wrote our final caption, the waterways caption. We also revised and edited our captions.
• Thursday, we continued to revise and edit our captions and started to publish our captions.
• We finished publishing our captions and started to illustrate our pictures for our posters.

Reading
Written by: Cassidy, Amy, Tommy, Tyler Paris

• On Monday, we determined the gist of the piece. To do that, we took out small details and held on to the big ones.
• On Tuesday we learned how to monitor our thinking while we read and how it transforms or changes.  
• We learned how to write a summary. A summary is a shorter version of the article in a nutshell.
• On Friday, we did a summary check in about bees. We found the gist of each paragraph and took those ideas and bunched them together to summarize the whole article.
• On Wednesday, we reviewed nonfiction reading strategies and wrote it down on a piece of chart paper. The chart was about tips for non-fiction readers and what to do before reading and during reading.
• We learned what it means to synthesize. That means we merge our thinking with what we’re reading. We wrote a synthesis response to something we have already read.
• On Friday, we learned how to include our thinking in our notes. This helped up write a synthesis response to what we read today.

  

Writing
Written by: Keith, Brien,  Annie and Brenna:

• We learned what similes are and it’s when you compare something using the words like or as. An example is this room is as black as night. We also were revising and finishing up our drafts.
• Tuesday, we learned how to combine short sentences. We also revised and edited our story.
• We learned how to paragraph our stories and we finished editing. Some times when you start a new paragraph is if time passed, you’re doing something new or someone new speaks.
• On Thursday, we were publishing and illustrating our stories.
• Friday was a very important day for us! We glued our books together with construction paper. Then we either bounded it, stringed it or ringed it.
• The class learned what a expert project is because that’s our new unit. It’s when you write about something that you’re an expert on. We brainstormed some topics too.
• On Thursday the class learned how to pick a topic. We planned that topic out after we picked it.
• Mrs. Stygles showed us how to plan our expert project and then we planned it. We learned that we have to use expert lingo so we sound like experts.

   

Math
Written by: Derek Jack!, Stacey Cassidy

• We did a math workshop from Monday to Tuesday. Some of the activities were measuring the perimeter of things around the room. We also found the perimeter of shapes on a computer game called logopaths. Everyone worked with Mrs. Stygles to measure the length of the classroom.  
• The next day we learned what a polygon (straight sides, has to be closed, no intersecting lines) is and we played a game called Guess My Rule.
• In class, we used power polygons to make shapes with different number of sides.  
• Today we made snowflakes using symmetry to decorate the classroom windows.  
• This week on Wednesday and Thursday, we were in a new math workshop. We played guess my rule, continued making polygon shapes and used logopaths to make rectangles with a perimeter of 600 and 800 steps.
• We did more work on quadrilaterals. We also did an activity where we learned about squares and rectangles and how a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square.