Week of March 2nd-6th: Students wrapped up their nonfiction research and notetaking this week. Then, they began studying and analyzing body paragraphs, including identifying their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, students started to draft body paragraphs for their own essay.
OUR CURRENT LEARNING IN MATH
Week of March 2nd-6th: This week, we began our March number corner work, determining relationhips between the areas of different shapes. In our core instruction, students studied the standard algorithm for multiplication.
OUR CURRENT LEARNING IN SOCIAL STUDIES
Week of March 2nd-6th: Students learned about the Atlantic slave trade, and how it was influenced and influenced geography, culture and economy in Mrs. Van Fleet's class. In Mrs. Azofeifa's class, we started to study social classes in the colonies. Students continue to practice drawing conclusions, and using evidence with reasoning.