Well, we finally finished our "Duck on a Bike" stories this week. It feels like we have been working on them forever, but we had several interruptions throughout the writing process that slowed us down. Look for those to come home in Thursday folders next week!
In reading, we have been reinforcing several different summarizing strategies such as SWBS (Somebody Wanted But So...) and learning a couple of new ones like Boxes and Bullets and Get the Gist. I really believe these strategies help them with their reading comprehension.
In science, we finished up our Earth Changes posters and each groups presented their poster on earthquakes, volcanoes, or landslides. Students practiced note-taking skills while watching the presentations. Then we moved onto our soil observations, and that will continue into next week.
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| Observing soil samples |
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| Observing soil samples after we added water, shook it up, and allowed it time to settle |
In math, we spent two brief days on division. At this age, we use manipulatives and drawings to help their understand the correlation between multiplication and division. They are not yet exposed to what we know as long division...that will come next year!
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| Using a division work mat and counters to solve a division word problem |
On Friday, we had a quick introduction to probability and we will continue that on Monday. After we wrap up probability, we will have a test on Thursday over multiplication. division, graphing and probability. Then we spend the rest of our time from Friday until April 21 to review all of the math concepts taught this year as a refresher before the math STAAR test.
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| Keeping a tally as they draw tiles from a bag to learn about probability |
Have a great weekend!
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