This week in Language Arts, we moved forward with our work in storytelling! All of us are pretty talented at remembering the tales which excite us, and we are learning how to transfer that onto the page! Identifying the main idea (what the story is mostly about) takes a more developed sense of memoery retention. We're practicing following the clues of a story to clearly know what the main idea is. After that, the question is- "How do you know that's the main idea?" That's where our supporting details come into play. Stories tend to have many details, but we've got to keep an eye out for the ones which support our main idea! It's a bit slower of a process than we'd prefer (for now), but we're working our way through it!

This week in Math, we continued practicing our 0-6 times tables! We also spent some time practicing our addition/subtraction fact families. The more fluidly we get those down, the more consistently we'll be able to wean ourselves from finger counting. We also paired perimeter and area this week! This was another space where we had to slow ourselves down, because these required going through steps! We had to ascertain whether or not we were doing perimeter first, or area, and then choose the set of steps which accompany those equation requirements. Also, on Monday, Mr. Josh opened up a discussion with the class, going around asking what we felt had been confusing in math, and what we needed more assistance with. Then he sat with us in groups to directly address our specific needs! How cool!