Weeks of November 17th-26th: Students concluded their character profile project to showcase their learning from their book club. We also took the end of unit district assessment, and continued reading Home of the Brave. In terms of grammar and word work, students completed their fourth word study story, continued practicing identifying and correcting run-on sentences.
OUR CURRENT LEARNING IN MATH
Weeks of November 17th-26th: Students continued work with fractions in these weeks, using the operations of addition, subtraction and multiplication. Students are learning strategies to identify common denominators and equivalent fractions, such as using a ratio table. Interpreting fraction word problems is a continued focus, too. In "number corner," student continue to practice classifying triangles by their sides and angles, and how to graph these triangles on coordinate planes.
OUR CURRENT LEARNING IN SOCIAL STUDIES
Weeks of November 17th-26th: Students continued analyzing artifacts to understand what life was like in different indigenous regions. This included writing about them, comparing them with other artifacts, and briefly presenting. As an assessment, students stated a claim about these artifacts, and defended their claim with evidence.