November 12-15

I'm so glad to be back, we've had a great week getting back into the swing of things. 

Here's a synopsis of what we did this week:

In SS we are learning about the constitution and early government. We will continue learning about government until the end of the quarter. We discussed what the colonists wanted in their government and compared it to how England ruled them.

In math we learned about various angles, rotating angles, and measuring angles. We learned about acute, right, and obtuse angles as well as how to measure them with a protractor.

In reading we have been studying non fiction text structure for the past week and learning abound how non fiction texts are set up. There are four main structures we learned about.

The students used this information to analyze the structure in the books they are reading.

Working hard. We also got 4 new boxes of books that we are working hard at sorting by level.

As we look for good fit books, some students are reading books that are too hard or too easy.  We went through lexile.com and used our lexiles to find some suggested books and also looked up the lexile of the books we were already reading.

In writing students finished their PROBES this week. Here is a great example of the finished product. Rubrics will be going home next week and I will send their notebooks home with them so you can see their finished product.