April Conferences - Wednesday, April 10
April Vacation - Week of April 15th
English/Language Arts:
- On Monday and Tuesday, the class completed the ELA portion of the MCAS.
- The rest of the week was spent reading their biography books and becoming active members of a book club. Some of the book club lessons were:
- Expectations for book clubs
- How to show respect in a book club
- How to keep the discussion on track
- How to build on ideas
- For this unit, we're trying to track our thinking using our reading response journals and not using stickies. The class came up with a list of ideas that could be tracked while reading a biography. Each person selected an idea to individually track and the group will each have an idea that they're working on together. They decided how they wanted to track their idea and they meet regularly in their book clubs to share their thinking.
Math:
- On Wednesday, we worked on solving distance problems up to 1,000 and different strategies they could use to solve these problems.
- On Thursday, students learned they learned a game called Close to 1,000. They had to make two three-digit numbers that were as close to 1,000 as could be. The difference between their number and 1,000 was their score. The person with the lowest score was the winner.
- On Friday, we reviewed different strategies for solving an addition problem two ways, one being the traditional algorithm. In addition, we worked on place value up to the thousands, how to round tens, hundreds and thousands and how to write numbers in expanded form.
Social Studies:
- This week, we finished reading about Ellis Island and took a simulated trip from Austria to New York.
- Students are in small groups and they are writing an immigration reader's theater script where they will immigrate from their assigned country to America. They will have to incorporate the things they've learned about immigration into their scripts.
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