Week 3, done! We have been spending time building a classroom community, creating norms and reacquainting ourselves with classroom routines. See what we have been up to below. Read along to see what questions or activities you can do at home with your student. We have been spending time each day practicing choosing just-right-books. In room 5 we use the bike analogy to help students think about wha is a just-right-book. A just right book is like riding a bike on the blacktop at school. The reading sounds smooth, you might have 2 to 4 tricky words per page, but you still understand the book. A too hard (for now) book is like riding a bike up hill. The reading is slow, you have more than 5 tricky words per page and you are confused about what the sentence is telling you. A book that is too easy is like riding a bike down hill. You can read the book really quickly and there might be one tricky word. Just-right-books help students build upon their reading skills by challenging them at the right level. We reunited with our buddies who are now 5th graders! Mrs. Abdul-Alim is our buddy class teacher. Here were are reading with our friends. In math, we are working on solving word problems and representing our thinking in drawings and using number sentences (equations). Below we each created graphs to show data about things we are interested in learning more about. Some friends made graphs about favorite pizza, if you have a brother, sister or none or both, and favorite animal. Parents can support students at home by asking them "What does that data say about _______?" "What is the pattern?" "What does the pattern tell us?" Below we are doing a gallery walk to look at all the different questions that we can answer with a bar graph. We started writer's workshop this week and are so excited to write! We are learning about writing narratives and telling small moments. Small moments are things that we do or something that happened to us. For example, losing a tooth. It's not a big vacation or a party. We learn to stretch a small moment and add lots of details to help readers feel like that were there with us when it happened. This week in Art, we learned about Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian artist who painted abstract art. You might ask your child “What can you tell me about abstract art?” “What colors did Kandinsky primarily use?” What can you tell me about primary colors?” We have been working really hard on our portrait collages. We practiced using scissors and going over norms for using glue. Here they are! Parents can ask, " what what challenging about making the portraits?" What did you enjoy the most?"
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWe are authors, writers, mathematicians, readers, scientists and artists. Mrs. Salamanca will email you to check our class blog when there are new updates. Archives
May 2019
Categories |