Our reading theme this week was teamwork. We read several stories about how teamwork was important. The students learnded about the International Space Station. We read about a 13 year-old boy who climbed Mount Everest. We even read an Astronaut Handbook that told us the steps that need to be taken to become an astronaut. We did a lot of practice finding the main idea of these stories. We also practiced summarizing them as well.
This week began our yearly review in math. This week we started with reviewing the calendar. We discussed leap year. We also learned the "30 Days Has September" song. We even recorded a "rap" video of our version of the song. (If you would like to see a copy of the video, please email me and I will send you a copy as I do not like to put the students' faces on my blog.) In our spare time, we continue to practice our facts, addition/subtraction and multiplication.
We began writing personal narratives in writing. The students brainstormed ideas of stories they wanted to write about. Then they chose their topic and began writing. We also reviewed a writing rubric with an ice cream cone. The rubric used a sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top to show what a high writing grade would look like and a melty ice cream cone to show a what a low writing grade would look like. Using that visual helped the students to understand what the expectations were when they write.
As a reward for receiving compliments and working hard on the MAP testing, today we watched...
... and ate some popcorn, too!
Have a nice weekend.
