This week we have had some exciting assemblies. On Tuesday, Keynotes led us in a fabulous tribute to our heroes -- Veterans. On Thursday, we heard from 5th Graders running for Student Council positions and participated in the democratic process by voting.
We've been working on ways to improve our 3,2,1 responses by first focusing on writing and developing good questions. We will be moving on to how to elaborate and explain our learning more thoroughly as well.
In reading and language arts, Second Grade has been working on summarizing and comparing and contrasting. We enjoyed Drew Dewalt's The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home. We've been working hard in our spelling and word work groups in order to give us a strong base in writing.
Third Grade has continued their journey with Salva in A Long Walk to Water. We've delved deep with inference and using evidence to predict our character's next steps, and seen how every bit of the story has given us information along the way that provided a type of foreshadowing.
Fourth Graders are working hard on expository writing. We've used outlines to help us organize our thoughts, and are learning how to develop that into five thoughtful paragraphs. We've have fabulous discussion and participation!
Our scientists have continued their study of energy forms. Fourth graders investigated sound energy by working with partners to explore how sound travels.
Third graders created a slingshot to determine how the amount of potential energy affects the distance something will travel.
What will happen to a solid when heat energy is increased or decreased? Ask your second grade scientist! After making our predictions, we observed how heat addition and removal affects butter. Turns our our definition of energy was correct: it CAN change matter!
In math this week fourth graders worked on multiplication. We multiplied by tens, hundreds, and thousands. We ended the week with multiplication arrays and Sunshine math.
Third graders worked with arrays that total 36. We found all the factors to 36 and identified the rectangles that matched the dimensions.
Second graders solved 3-digit subtraction problems with regrouping in the hundreds place. They ended the work with Sunshine math.
Have a great weekend!
The SBLC Team
We've been working on ways to improve our 3,2,1 responses by first focusing on writing and developing good questions. We will be moving on to how to elaborate and explain our learning more thoroughly as well.
In reading and language arts, Second Grade has been working on summarizing and comparing and contrasting. We enjoyed Drew Dewalt's The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home. We've been working hard in our spelling and word work groups in order to give us a strong base in writing.
Third Grade has continued their journey with Salva in A Long Walk to Water. We've delved deep with inference and using evidence to predict our character's next steps, and seen how every bit of the story has given us information along the way that provided a type of foreshadowing.
Fourth Graders are working hard on expository writing. We've used outlines to help us organize our thoughts, and are learning how to develop that into five thoughtful paragraphs. We've have fabulous discussion and participation!
Our scientists have continued their study of energy forms. Fourth graders investigated sound energy by working with partners to explore how sound travels.
Third graders created a slingshot to determine how the amount of potential energy affects the distance something will travel.
What will happen to a solid when heat energy is increased or decreased? Ask your second grade scientist! After making our predictions, we observed how heat addition and removal affects butter. Turns our our definition of energy was correct: it CAN change matter!
In math this week fourth graders worked on multiplication. We multiplied by tens, hundreds, and thousands. We ended the week with multiplication arrays and Sunshine math.
Third graders worked with arrays that total 36. We found all the factors to 36 and identified the rectangles that matched the dimensions.
Second graders solved 3-digit subtraction problems with regrouping in the hundreds place. They ended the work with Sunshine math.
Have a great weekend!
The SBLC Team
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