Our classroom Peer Recommendation Board was introduced to students as a way for readers to recommend books to others. Students learned they can recommend books to others they think may be interested in a book they've read. Students were also assigned new reading partners. They were given an opportunity to learn more about their partner's reading habits by asking them questions about the kinds of books they like to read. Partners also met at the end of workshop to share what they had read, focusing on the characters and events in their story.
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| Zaiver and Levi talk about the kinds of books they like to read. |
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| Amir tells Adam about his book, and Adam asks follow-up questions. |
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| Students can recommend a good book to a friend. |
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| Each student has his/her own pocket which peers can place a recommendation card into. |
Writing Workshop
Students learned how to write a strong ending to their personal narratives. They learned to end their narratives with an emotional ending or with a hope or a wish. We also introduced paragraph writing to students. They learned a paragraph consists of a group of sentences around one topic. Learning how to organize their writing into paragraphs will make their writing easier to read. Soon students will choose a personal narrative to draft and publish.
Math
At this point we have worked on building fluency with the following multiplication facts: 3s, 4s, 2s, 5s, 9s, and 10s. Please continue to practice these multiplication facts at home with your child. He/she takes a math fact quiz each Tuesday and Thursday. Your child should know which quiz they are currently working towards passing. Students also learned to multiply and divide with 1 and 0. They learned you can divide into 0 (0/5=5) but you cannot divide by 0 (5/0= ). Students were also introduced to various properties of addition and multiplication. The trickiest property for students to understand was the Associative Property: (2x3) x5 = 2 x (3x5). We will continue to work on this in class.
Science
Students have learned A LOT about water through several investigations. We finished up our first set of investigations with water races. Students created domes of water of different sizes to race down a slope. They learned that heavier domes of water win the race as shown in Video 1 below. During our second set of investigations we learned about hot and cold water. We made our own bottle thermometers filled with green room temperature water. Students observed the green water rise in the straw as it was placed in hot water and lower in the straw as it was placed in cold water. Now we know cold water contracts and hot water expands. Students also discovered cold water is more dense than room temperature water and hot water is less dense. Therefore, cold water sinks and hot water floats as shown in Video 2 below.
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| Mahee and Luke mark their thermometer to begin the investigation. |
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| Alaina and Isabella record their results in their science notebook. |
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| Emma, Pearl, and Charles watch the water as it rises in the straw. |
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| Emma, Faisal, and Elena observe hot water floating because it is less dense. |
Field Trip
We had an awesome time on our field trip to Detroit where we were able to tour the Renaissance Center and Ford Field. You can check out photos from the trip in the slideshow below or click HERE to see the photos individually.
Jog-a-Thon
Although rain caused the jog-a-thon to be held indoors, the students still had a great time at this annual event! Check out the photos in the slideshow below or click HERE to see the photos individually.
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