Thursday, April 2, 2015

Week of March 30- April 2

REMINDER: Leadership night is on Tuesday April, 7 and Family Fitness Night is on Thursday April 9

Word Work:

  • 5 new sight words we learned were: away, animal, house, point, and page
  • reviewed the OO sound and learned the ft blend
  • Our teachers wondered if we could follow directions... only one of us read the whole thing first :)


Writer's Workshop:
  • Worked on introducing our realistic fiction character in the beginning of the story
  • Learned that we can begin our book by using dialogue, action, description, question, and background information
  • Learned how authors end their stories and worked on providing a sense of closure to our books
Reader's Workshop:
  • We learned what reader's theater is and got a script to become a character
  • Practiced fluent reading of our character's dialogue
  • Learned how to self correct a misread or misunderstood word
  • Practiced expectations of performing Reader's Theater
Social Studies:
  • Focused on habit 6- synergizing and habit 7- sharpening the saw! We got to sharpen our saw by doing brainbreaks!



  • We got our leadership notebooks out and ready to begin sharing next week!
Science:
  • Learned and talked about different types of severe weather and how to prepare and be safe
    • tornado
    • hurricane
    • thunderstorms
  • We took time and did a community builder- we had to untangle the string in our groups and create a circle!





Math:
  • We took an assessment on chapter 7
  • We dismantled the March calendar and set up April!
  • We did some review of the math that we know in an Easter activity! 

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