Reading and Writing

This month, students read about and researched information about a National Park. First, they were given three sources to read and take notes (text, website, book).  They took notes on the location, size, animals, land and water features, things to do and fun facts.  They compared their information from the different sources. After that, students organized their information into paragraphs or lists. Each had to have a heading and main idea.  Lastly, students published their paragraphs and lists by typing them into slides for a presentation. They had fun customizing each slide with pictures, font style and color and backgrounds. I hope you enjoyed viewing the presentation! This work was outstanding and I am so proud of their hard work!  

While students were publishing their National Park Research presentations in writing, in reading, students chose one of the fifty states and researched information about their state, using multiple sources.  Then students created a state poster and they are on display in the hallway.  

Math

Mathematicians learned all about shapes!  First, students learned about lines and surfaces.  Lines can be straight or curved and surfaces are flat or curved.  If a solid shape has a flat surface it can be stacked or slid, and if a solid shape has a curved surface it can be rolled.  Next, students dove deeper into flat shapes.  They identified and recognized flat shapes, divided shapes into equal parts such as halves, third and fourths, combined flat shapes to make figures and used dot paper and grid paper to draw flat shapes.  Lastly, students learned about solid shapes.  They recognized and identified solid shapes, made models using solid shapes and identified and counted faces of solid shapes.  The students favorite part of this unit was learning how to draw a cube!   

Reading- Readers will draw on previously learned strategies, and develop new ones, to integrate what they know about a character (or characters) across a series. Children will use this information to understand, predict, and

critique a story. 

Writing - Writers will write a persuasive book review while keeping specific elements in mind.  We will even turn all of our book reviews into a website. 

Math -   Our last math unit is graphing!  Students will learn about picture and bar graphs and line plots.  Students will collect and organize data and create their own graph.

Social Studies -  Our class will learn about six different countries and their immigrant population’s history in the United States.