Week of February 11th

Announcements: 

Wednesday - February 27th - Crazy Outfit Day

Monday - March 4th - Book orders due if you're choosing to order

Tuesday - March 5th - Mock Comp Day - this is the day that students will practice the MCAS long composition test.

***We will be starting our immigration unit this week. The first project will be to learn about our families immigration history by interviewing a family member. If your immigration history is unknown, students can interview a family friend or we can arrange to have them interview a Hanlon staff member.

Valentine's Day Photos

   

Reading
Written by: Cassidy

• On Monday, we started paragraph two in our book review.
• The next day, we finished drafting our paragraph two about why we recommend the book. We also shared why we like our paragraph.
• On Wednesday we revised and edited out book review.
• The next day we published our book review.
• On Friday we brainstormed what we know about biographies and read biographies from the school library. Then we added to our brainstorming list.

Writing
Written by:Derek, Brien,

• On Monday we planned our topic for our long comp. It has to be a persuasive piece about what we do in our free time. We also planned the body paragraphs.
• On Tuesday we reviewed the purpose of the intro and closing paragraph. Then we planned our leads and we wrote our intro paragraphs.
• On Wednesday we finished planning our long comp and worked on writing our intro paragraph and paragraph two.
• On Thursday we worked on using transition words to link our reasons and opinions.
• On Friday we worked on how to write a persuasive conclusion paragraph.

Science
Written by:Annie,Paris

• On Tuesday we got together in partners and read a book about volcanoes.
• On Wednesday we read about earthquakes. We also got to look at pictures of earthquakes and the damage from them.

• On Thursday we read about different types of weathering and erosion.
• On Friday we watched a video about different types of weathering and erosion.

Math
Written by:Jack C., Parsa

• On Tuesday, we finished making our fraction cards and started to compare our fractions with each other.
• On Wednesday, we compared fractions on the mimio. Some of us finished making fraction cards and we learned how to play capture fractions.
• After that, we sorted the fraction cards by landmark numbers like 1 or ½.
• 
  

  
  

  Lastly, we had a workshop and did page 43. Some of us put our fraction cards in order on a number line and we played capture fractions again.