Week of February 25th

My mom came up from North Carolina for a visit. While she was here, she came to school with me one day. Luckily, she was very willing to help run some small group activities.

Reading

Written by:Jack,Cassidy, Annie, Paris

• On Monday we read a biography of Marian Anderson and talked about the organization of the biography.
• On Tuesday we finished the Marian Andersons biography and discussed that biographies are usually birth to death order (chronological order)
• On Thursday we did an MCAS passage called Americas Best Girl and answered the multiple choice questions. We also talked about test taking strategies.
• On Friday we talked about making graphic organizers  for  the open response . We also did the open response for America’s Best Girl.

Math
Written by:  Jack f Stacey Parsa, brien,

• On Monday, we finished our workshop on comparing fractions.
• We learned how to add and subtract mixed numbers
• The next few days, we learned how to multiply fractions. We also worked with Mrs. Stygles on different strategies and visual models. We also got to do challenges and IXL after we completed our work.

New fraction manipulatives I picked up at the teacher store (fraction cubes and magnetic fraction strips). 

New fraction manipulatives I picked up at the teacher store (magnetic fraction circles). 

Writing
Written by: Derek, Keith, Thomas, Sophie, Giana

• We revised and edited our persuasive essay and published it.
• We started a new prompt which is an expert project. The prompt was what we liked to do in our free time. We started to pick our topic and most people picked one.
• For Wednesday and Thursday we planned our body, intro and conclusion paragraphs.
• Today we drafted our intro paragraph and talked about headings.

Science/Social Studies
Written by: Hallie, Amy, Tyler, Liam, Kaitlyn

• We did a yummy experiment with graham crackers and frosting to review how plate tectonics move and change the surface of the earth over time
• We finished our concept map of how the surface of the earth changes over time.

• We took our science check in and we wrote a paragraph about how the surface of the earth changes over time.
• We took a pre assessment on immigration to show what we know.
• We started a book on immigration.