It's a wrap on another busy week. Fourth Grade rocked the house with their amazing 3 performances! We are so proud of their hard work!
In reading, Second Grade have continued their comparing/contrasting with two books about a character who wants to adopt a pet. We've been hard at work with our spelling, word building, and using word patterns to help us with a variety of words.
All grade levels learned Mountain Language, a way to practice and actively apply grammar skills. We also completed an example of a homonym routine that we are incorporating in our new writing rotations.
Third Grade closely examined A Long Walk to Water using all the Bloom's Taxonomy Levels. They were blown away by how deeply with their thinking they can go, especially using evaluation, synthesis, and analysis.
Fourth Grade has been hard at work with expository writing. They penned a piece for administrators to read which explained how our "lunch families" works to make the cafeteria a better place. They have also been analyzing sentence structure to understand complex and compound sentences.
In math fourth graders learned about the Distributive Property of Multiplication. We used arrays and broke them into two smaller arrays to represent two digit by two digit multiplication equations. We call this an area model.
Third graders also learned about the Distributive Property of Multiplication. They used tiles to make arrays and then broke them into two smaller arrays. We also learned about the Commutative Property of Multiplication. Which is taking the two factors and switching them around. 2 X 3 = 6 3 X 2 = 6
Second grade wrote and solved addition and subtraction story problems. They sure are getting good at them. Some of the problems we are solving are three steps. Wow!
Our scientists culminated their Energy Unit by applying their knowledge of energy forms to everyday activities. They created comic strips to idenitfy how various forms of energy--heat, light, sound, electrical, potential, and kinetic--help them accomplish their favorite activity or hobby.
We ended our week with a focus on gratitude. After each adding a leaf to our Gratitude Tree, we realized we have a lot to be thankful for!
Happy Weekend,
SBLC Trio
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