This week, we have used our new learning habit format to focus on self-management. Three specific areas -= listening, following directions, and impulse control -- were topics of reflection and goal setting, both at home and at school. We hope you have enjoyed the sharing addition to our nightly Learning Habits. We know it helps solidify their learning when they discuss it with others! Thanksfor being a receptive audience!
Here we are in Project Block identifying some impulse control (or missed opportunities!) with the characters in Mr. Noisy.
In reading, we completed some individual reading conferences with Mrs. Forrest, finding growth in our Words per Minute, Accuracy, and Comprehension. We celebrated together and set some goals for our future rates. These will be reported on our Spring Conference Form, soon to come. Fourth Grade had some exciting news: Ruta Septys personally responded to Mrs. Forrest's email and asked if she could see our work! We hope to hear from her again soon, but we know we sent her a lot to look over! We've been working on expository development and nonfiction annotations. We began a new novel, Ugly, about a man born with some extreme physical differences. We are facinated and developing a great deal of empathy. Third Grade began a new book, Words With Wings. We are enjoying the narrative poetry structure, and are loving reinforcing our knowledge about figurative language and literary devices.Second Grade has been writing personal narratives vigorously, and learning new writing techniques! Spelling centers are in full swing as well! In math, 4th grade applied their fraction understandings to measurement and we had some interesting debates about all of those lines in between the inch markings on a ruler. Students picked objects to measure and organized their data using frequency tables and line plots. Toward the end of the week, we explored different types of stem and leaf plots. We'll continue organizing and analyzing data next week, but here are a few pics of 4th grade statisticians at work:
3rd graders are continuing their work with fractions and have made all of kinds of discoveries this week. We discussed equality of area, even with fair shares that are different shapes. We've explored all sorts of fractional patterns and started using mixed number notation. We've also had lots of opportunities to practice mathematical reasoning, as we are learning to explain our thinking clearly. It's pretty easy to convince yourself that a solution is reasonable, not too tricky to convince a good friend, but we are learning to convince even a skeptic and had a lot of fun with our skeptical moments along the way. These two 3rd grade mathematicians are working to convince a skeptical partner that their solution is reasonable. Big work!
2nd graders wrapped up their study of coins with some different types of practice making change. We made some connections back to market day and their work as consumers and producers. Then we moved into a 2-day problem solving project with a jar of Whoppers. This was a yummy way to build our understanding of multistep problem solving in a real-world context. By the end of our work, we had modeled addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using all kinds of different manipulatives and resources. Here are a few second graders studying videos and photographs to help them solve:
Fourth graders have used nonfiction text and virtual archaeological resources to gain a better understanding of Texas' past. All of the dates, details, and significance can be difficult to remember, so our historians are creating a digital timeline to keep track of important events that have taken place in our state's history. We will add to it throughout the rest of the year as we learn about other meaningful milestones.
This week provided a range of weather and clouds for our second and third grade meteorologists to observe. After checking Kiker's weather station and practicing reading thermometers, we've perfected the art of measuring temperature (ask your meteorologist the best place to get the most accurate data and why). We've supported our understanding of weather with some nonfiction text and explored weather websites. We're on our way to being weather experts!
Have a terrific weekend!
Team SBLC
Here we are in Project Block identifying some impulse control (or missed opportunities!) with the characters in Mr. Noisy.
In reading, we completed some individual reading conferences with Mrs. Forrest, finding growth in our Words per Minute, Accuracy, and Comprehension. We celebrated together and set some goals for our future rates. These will be reported on our Spring Conference Form, soon to come. Fourth Grade had some exciting news: Ruta Septys personally responded to Mrs. Forrest's email and asked if she could see our work! We hope to hear from her again soon, but we know we sent her a lot to look over! We've been working on expository development and nonfiction annotations. We began a new novel, Ugly, about a man born with some extreme physical differences. We are facinated and developing a great deal of empathy. Third Grade began a new book, Words With Wings. We are enjoying the narrative poetry structure, and are loving reinforcing our knowledge about figurative language and literary devices.Second Grade has been writing personal narratives vigorously, and learning new writing techniques! Spelling centers are in full swing as well! In math, 4th grade applied their fraction understandings to measurement and we had some interesting debates about all of those lines in between the inch markings on a ruler. Students picked objects to measure and organized their data using frequency tables and line plots. Toward the end of the week, we explored different types of stem and leaf plots. We'll continue organizing and analyzing data next week, but here are a few pics of 4th grade statisticians at work:
3rd graders are continuing their work with fractions and have made all of kinds of discoveries this week. We discussed equality of area, even with fair shares that are different shapes. We've explored all sorts of fractional patterns and started using mixed number notation. We've also had lots of opportunities to practice mathematical reasoning, as we are learning to explain our thinking clearly. It's pretty easy to convince yourself that a solution is reasonable, not too tricky to convince a good friend, but we are learning to convince even a skeptic and had a lot of fun with our skeptical moments along the way. These two 3rd grade mathematicians are working to convince a skeptical partner that their solution is reasonable. Big work!
2nd graders wrapped up their study of coins with some different types of practice making change. We made some connections back to market day and their work as consumers and producers. Then we moved into a 2-day problem solving project with a jar of Whoppers. This was a yummy way to build our understanding of multistep problem solving in a real-world context. By the end of our work, we had modeled addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using all kinds of different manipulatives and resources. Here are a few second graders studying videos and photographs to help them solve:
Fourth graders have used nonfiction text and virtual archaeological resources to gain a better understanding of Texas' past. All of the dates, details, and significance can be difficult to remember, so our historians are creating a digital timeline to keep track of important events that have taken place in our state's history. We will add to it throughout the rest of the year as we learn about other meaningful milestones.
This week provided a range of weather and clouds for our second and third grade meteorologists to observe. After checking Kiker's weather station and practicing reading thermometers, we've perfected the art of measuring temperature (ask your meteorologist the best place to get the most accurate data and why). We've supported our understanding of weather with some nonfiction text and explored weather websites. We're on our way to being weather experts!
Have a terrific weekend!
Team SBLC
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