Happy Friday all!
Starting the week with Connections and learning about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a great way to think about our roles in our community! Today, as a class, we continued this conversation looking at ways we can help build not only our classroom community but our community at Cole and beyond. We tied this lesson to our work discussing bullying and how to be an upstander if they see bullying at all. It is hard to sometimes stand up to bullies, but our discussion was around how not standing up when we know something is wrong is sometimes just a bad as being the bully! Great discussions were had! This week in math we really dug into subtracting fractions with unlike denominators and how we need to "trade" wholes for fractions in order to subtract at times. This is a difficult concept, we used fraction tiles and lots of modeling to help us conceptualize this! We also worked on a fraction escape room! In this escape room, we had to use what we have learned about equivalent fractions, ordering and adding/subtracting fractions to escape! Great teamwork here! We ended the week with independent work on an Exemplar, which is a multi-step word problem that dealt with fractions. Proud of their work in this area! In reading this week, we looked at some test taking strategies. We read an article about fire and then answered some multiple choice questions by going back in the text and finding details to support our answers. We crossed off answers that made no sense in order to limit our possibilities, then used our skills to go back and find facts. We will be continuing with this excerpt next week as we look at an Open Response strategy A.C.E. - Answer, Cite, Explain. Looking forward to some great effort as we learn to back up our answers with evidence from the text! We have also had some fun this week with Mr. Terupt Falls Again. The students are definitely dealing with some middle school issues, which lead to some laughter and giggles, but also had us realizing there are many ways to deal with peer pressure. Mr. Terupt got engaged to Ms. Newbury this week and has assigned a major project to his class - to plan their wedding! Needless to say, we have had lots of laughs and discussion about this! Be sure to ask your child about this book! In Science, I couldn't be any prouder of the effort students showed as they took their computer-based Science assessment on the Earth, Moon and Stars. Some still need to review the difference between waxing (building) and waning (disappearance)of the moon, but overall I was impressed with their analysis of some graphs and interpretation of questions. I printed a blank copy of the test and indicated just the answers your child got wrong. They are in their Friday folders for your review! We are now going to be focused on the Earth's Systems, including the layers of the Earth and atmosphere! In Writing, we looked to add dialogue and learned the proper ways to use quotations in our writing. Students are beefing up their narratives and we hope to get them finalized next week, so we can celebrate before February vacation! As mentioned in my earlier email this week, Wednesday is WORLD READ ALOUD DAY! We are celebrating in Room 15 all week with many parents and other teachers from our building coming in and reading to us! If you would like to participate, please just shoot me an email and we will coordinate a convenient time! Thanks for all you do for our class! Enjoy the weekend! Cheers! Maura Important Dates to Remember:
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