This week things have been rolling along, and we are now getting into a natural rhythm with our schedule.
Readers have been investing in their character Red, in Katherine Applegate's latest novel, Wishtree. They have been learning about the power of really slowing down and looking at ALL parts of the beginnings of books -- the blurb, the dedication, pictures, poems -- all are crucial parts, and all is done ON PURPOSE by the author. Good readers pay attention to all of that. Red has deemed us trustworthy of an important story, and we are on pins and needles to find out what it is (plus we feel a high responsibility to pay attention and be worthy of this great honor 💓 ).
In writing and word work, we have been exploring the power of how sentences are crafted. It's not just about having a capital at the beginning and a punctuation mark at the end. It's also having a subject, a predicate, and organizing all the words to have the impact we desire on the reader. We have worked on being descriptive through "show, don't tell."
SBLC mathematicians are whole number place value experts at this point. We've noticed so many patterns and relationships through our place value study that help us develop number sense and relative magnitude. We considered ways to express the relationships we've noticed in different forms, including expanded form and expanded notation. This week we also collaborated in small groups to solve a word problem that took us between whole numbers into tenths and hundredths of dollars (in other words, dimes and pennies). We modeled with place value blocks, dollar bills, and coins to show our understanding concretely, then created visual proofs to explain our reasoning. The power of 10 pattern that we've been noticing continues to be true even into decimal place values.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
Readers have been investing in their character Red, in Katherine Applegate's latest novel, Wishtree. They have been learning about the power of really slowing down and looking at ALL parts of the beginnings of books -- the blurb, the dedication, pictures, poems -- all are crucial parts, and all is done ON PURPOSE by the author. Good readers pay attention to all of that. Red has deemed us trustworthy of an important story, and we are on pins and needles to find out what it is (plus we feel a high responsibility to pay attention and be worthy of this great honor 💓 ).
In writing and word work, we have been exploring the power of how sentences are crafted. It's not just about having a capital at the beginning and a punctuation mark at the end. It's also having a subject, a predicate, and organizing all the words to have the impact we desire on the reader. We have worked on being descriptive through "show, don't tell."
SBLC mathematicians are whole number place value experts at this point. We've noticed so many patterns and relationships through our place value study that help us develop number sense and relative magnitude. We considered ways to express the relationships we've noticed in different forms, including expanded form and expanded notation. This week we also collaborated in small groups to solve a word problem that took us between whole numbers into tenths and hundredths of dollars (in other words, dimes and pennies). We modeled with place value blocks, dollar bills, and coins to show our understanding concretely, then created visual proofs to explain our reasoning. The power of 10 pattern that we've been noticing continues to be true even into decimal place values.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Jen and Jewellyn
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