We have really enjoyed with meeting with all of our family units this past week! 45 meetings is a lot, and it does take time, but we truly value both teachers getting that time to sit down with each of you.
Thanks too, for your work last weekend going through the notebooks! Know that your child can bring them home to review with you anytime -- just make sure they return them the very next day. We work with the notebooks every day.
Thursday night, your child brought home a permission slip to join NASA's Name the Rover Contest. We are endeavoring to write our first polished expository piece through this opportunity. If you don't give permission, no problem -- they will write the same piece, I just won't enter them in the contest. It's a perfect way to show them in an authentic, motivational way how to write to a prompt, choose a central idea, and explain with examples (in 150 words or less -- they'll have to be precise!).
In reading, we are researching through nonfiction text, and learning margin notes (annotations). They write their thinking, questions, and locate key words in the text that will help them comprehend efficiently. Oftentimes, readers think they need to remember everything just because it's there, or they have a hard time distinguishing the main ideas from the details. We have signposts (fiction and nonfiction) to help us with that.
Speaking of signposts, we are using the fiction set to help us get closer to Red's struggle. We are also using our acronym, CSERT, to locate fiction elements for summary. BIG WORK!
SBLC mathematicians showed their depth of understanding with a subtraction explanation. They used precise mathematical language to explain using several checking strategies how they knew their answer was accurate. This was challenging, but rewarding to see how far many of us have come in clearly communicating our ideas. We're thinking that we'll turn these drafts into letters to second graders later in the year so they can build a deeper understanding, too! For the rest of our short week, we worked with an open problem that involved sharing starburst candies. While we did not actually eat any candy, we did use multiplicative thinking as we sorted into lots of equal groups. Students drew pictures to represent their sharing, wrote equations, and are organizing their work to prove that they didn't miss any factors. We'll continue this big work next week!
Enjoy your weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
Thanks too, for your work last weekend going through the notebooks! Know that your child can bring them home to review with you anytime -- just make sure they return them the very next day. We work with the notebooks every day.
Thursday night, your child brought home a permission slip to join NASA's Name the Rover Contest. We are endeavoring to write our first polished expository piece through this opportunity. If you don't give permission, no problem -- they will write the same piece, I just won't enter them in the contest. It's a perfect way to show them in an authentic, motivational way how to write to a prompt, choose a central idea, and explain with examples (in 150 words or less -- they'll have to be precise!).
In reading, we are researching through nonfiction text, and learning margin notes (annotations). They write their thinking, questions, and locate key words in the text that will help them comprehend efficiently. Oftentimes, readers think they need to remember everything just because it's there, or they have a hard time distinguishing the main ideas from the details. We have signposts (fiction and nonfiction) to help us with that.
Speaking of signposts, we are using the fiction set to help us get closer to Red's struggle. We are also using our acronym, CSERT, to locate fiction elements for summary. BIG WORK!
SBLC mathematicians showed their depth of understanding with a subtraction explanation. They used precise mathematical language to explain using several checking strategies how they knew their answer was accurate. This was challenging, but rewarding to see how far many of us have come in clearly communicating our ideas. We're thinking that we'll turn these drafts into letters to second graders later in the year so they can build a deeper understanding, too! For the rest of our short week, we worked with an open problem that involved sharing starburst candies. While we did not actually eat any candy, we did use multiplicative thinking as we sorted into lots of equal groups. Students drew pictures to represent their sharing, wrote equations, and are organizing their work to prove that they didn't miss any factors. We'll continue this big work next week!
Enjoy your weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
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