Reader's Workshop: Unit 2: Reading The Weather, Reading The World (informational text)
Teaching Points; * Students worked on making connections between what they already know and care about and the text. * Students were reminded how nonfiction readers preview text in order to activate prior knowledge and anticipate how the text might go. * Students learned how nonfiction readers notice the text structure in order to help them determine the information that is most important (compare/contrast, cause & effect, problem/solution, and sequence). * Students learned strategies for tackling the hard parts of nonfiction reading. * Students learned about texts that are structured as hybrids (narrative & informational), and how to look through different "lenses" as they read. * Students learned ways to tackle new vocabulary in nonfiction. They have been practicing how to look in the word for root words, prefixes, & suffixes, and look around the word to use the sentences that come before and after to help determine meaning. * Students participated in a summary boot camp to learn how to summarize nonfiction text by using boxes & bullets (main idea and supporting details), and put them together in a cohesive paragraph using their own words. * Students began planning for their research projects in teams. Each team was assigned a severe weather event or natural disaster and began working together to generate research questions by using QFT (Question Focus Technique by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana). Writer's Workshop: Unit 2: Boxes & Bullets (personal and persuasive essays) Teaching Points; * Students participated in an essay structure boot camp to learn how to structure an opinion essay. We wrote about why we love ice cream. * Students have learned different ways to collect ideas for writing opinion essays (think about a person, place, or object that is important to you). * Students learned how to extend their initial thinking by using elaboration prompts to grow their ideas. * Students have learned how to support their thesis by developing different types of reasons. Students have planned and written opinion essays about a favorite person, a place or object, and about Halloween on Friday. Math Workshop: Unit 2; Factors and Multiples Teaching Points: * Students learned how to find all the factor pairs for a whole number in the range 1-100. *Students learned to recognize that a whole number is a multiple of each of its factors, and determine whether a given whole number in the range 1-100 is a multiple of a given one-digit number. * Students learned about prime and composite numbers and how to determine whether a given whole number between 1-100 is prime or composite. * Students learned to interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison (35=5x7 as a statement that 35 is 5 times as many as 7 and 7 times as many as 5.), and the reverse. * Students learned to multiply and divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison by using bar models and equations. Students continue to practice previously taught concepts through number of the day activities, as well as problem solving skills with our problem of the day. During our small group time students have been working on adding and subtracting with the standard algorithm and solving 2-step problems involving adding and subtracting. Science/Social Studies; Students continue to work on identifying the characteristics of various social skills, and ways to demonstrate them. During the month of October we focused on setting personal goals, and identifying how we show respect for others, ourselves, and property. We reached our class goal! Additionally, we continue to work on map skills. In science, we are working in research teams to investigate, design, and report on a severe weather or natural disaster. We will repeat this for the water cycle in the near future. Important Dates! Nov. 3rd No School (teacher professional development) Nov. 9th @2:15 Veteran's Day assembly Nov. 11th No School (Veteran's Day) Nov. 25th 1/2 Day Thanksgiving Break Nov. 26th & 27th No School Thanksgiving Break A very BIG thank you to Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Marciniec for organizing and working with the students to decorate an amazing spider theme pumpkin. Thank you all for coming in to meet with me during our parent-teacher conference week. I enjoyed sharing all your child's hard work and accomplishments with you. Comments are closed.
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