This week during Project, as Second Grade arduously prepared for their magnificent play, "Bugs on Parade," Third and Fourth were doing some practice in our testing areas.
Fourth Grade continues to produce amazing pieces and are fine tuning our writing. We have been practicing precise words, sentence variety, grabbing your readers' attention, and really ending our pieces with the clear significance. These talented writers are showing how hard work and persistence truly pays off! We also started a new novel, A Girl Named Eva, set in WWII.
Third Grade has turned our focus on looking at how reading applies to our test questions and interpretation. We have spent all year doing this with literature, however, now its time to see how those look in test format. We are getting ready for our "marathon" by doing some hands on practice.
Second Grade is honing their skills in reading responses. We have begun some deeper interpretation. This week we examined a quote, "When Ben put his stamps together, he had a pile of stamps. When Karl put his coins together, he had a pile of money. But when Max put his words together...he had a THOUGHT." We worked on inferring what the author wanted us to know about the value of words. It inspired some great thinking, and also began us thinking about how much power we have as writers in putting together words, and as communicators when we use words.
If you didn't get a chance to see Bugs on Parade, there's a second showing Tuesday evening at 6:30pm. Those adorable and catchy songs are a great introduction to our Insect Life Cycle Unit later this month!
Fourth Grade continues to produce amazing pieces and are fine tuning our writing. We have been practicing precise words, sentence variety, grabbing your readers' attention, and really ending our pieces with the clear significance. These talented writers are showing how hard work and persistence truly pays off! We also started a new novel, A Girl Named Eva, set in WWII.
Third Grade has turned our focus on looking at how reading applies to our test questions and interpretation. We have spent all year doing this with literature, however, now its time to see how those look in test format. We are getting ready for our "marathon" by doing some hands on practice.
Second Grade is honing their skills in reading responses. We have begun some deeper interpretation. This week we examined a quote, "When Ben put his stamps together, he had a pile of stamps. When Karl put his coins together, he had a pile of money. But when Max put his words together...he had a THOUGHT." We worked on inferring what the author wanted us to know about the value of words. It inspired some great thinking, and also began us thinking about how much power we have as writers in putting together words, and as communicators when we use words.
If you didn't get a chance to see Bugs on Parade, there's a second showing Tuesday evening at 6:30pm. Those adorable and catchy songs are a great introduction to our Insect Life Cycle Unit later this month!
In science, we've started our Weather Unit--what a great week for that topic! We've done some observing, measuring, and recording of weather and will continue our study next week. We're on our way to becoming expert meteorologists!
In math fourth graders added and subtracted fraction and mixed numbers. Third graders worked on classifying quadrilaterals and drawing them. Second graders continued subtracting with regrouping two and three digits numbers.
I loved doing the play!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat play was so cute, awesome job second grade!!
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