Weekly Wrap Up

In economics, we have been learning about goods and services in our community, budgets (students created a budget for economic fair project to determine how much profit they will make), and assembly lines. They enjoyed seeing the old I Love Lucy clip with Lucy at the chocolate factory assembly line, haha! We are looking forward to the Economics Fair next Thursday morning.

Hard at work on our Economics Fair class poster!

In language arts, we have read several folktales and fables and the kids are getting great at summarizing stories, making inferences, and recognizing cause and effect situations. These are all importing reading comprehension skills, and by Friday they worked in small groups (or individually if they chose to) to read a story on their own and complete a chart summarizing the story, and listing examples of cause/effect, inferences and sensory language.

We are continuing work on our fiction stories modeled after David Shannon's book Duck on a Bike. 

In a small group, we worked on transitions between paragraphs and including dialogue in our stories.

Discussing transitions...

Revising our stories to include smooth transitions between paragraphs.

We have also been busy working on our poem anthology and can't wait to see the final results! Remember, order forms went home in Thursday folders and are due back by Wednesday...whether or not you choose to buy one, please fill out the form.

In math, we are continuing to work on area and perimeter. On Tuesday, we did their favorite kind of math...stations! We will have a test over all measurement on Wednesday of next week and then move onto graphing.

Station 1: Conquer the Island, a competitive game where students try to cover the most area to win!

Station 2: Perimeter Sorting

Station 3: Laptops to play a variety of area and perimeter games (always listed on this blog on the websites page, so they can play at home too!)

Station 4: 36 Tiles. Students were given 36 color tiles and asked to make as many rectangles as they could with those tiles. They then had to calculate the area and perimeter of each rectangle. They very quickly realized that the area would always be 36 square inches, but the perimeter would change.

So that is our week in review, whew! I am looking forward to Saturday and the beautiful weather we are supposed to have. My husband is out of town, and Emily has plans all weekend, so tomorrow it is just John and I on our own, a rare treat! We are going to take a picnic to Zilker Park and ride the train! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend, and I look forward to seeing my students on Monday.