Monday, April 8

A great start to the week! In Math, we practiced applying our knowledge of fractions and decimals. Students seemed to struggle with this and we will be continuing our work with fractions and decimals this week. Maybe they could help you in doubling or halving a recipe one night? In Read Aloud, Ernie was given one final chance to change his fate of heading to the Juvenile Detention Center. In Reader's Workshop, students worked with Clueless Crossword puzzles, What's the Word? as well as meeting with me, reading independently and/or reading books by Chris Van Allsburg. For Writer's Workshop, we started learning about the non-fiction writing of responding to an author. We've completed book reviews and discussed opinion writing but now they will be writing about authors. We are also looking at what makes up a dictionary entry and what these things mean and are useful for. In Science, we looked at our pennies and how green they became! We also checked out our pennies we were trying to shine up and found that ketchup and vinegar came out the best. Tomorrow, we are going to do another trial to see if it is truly the case or if there are any other variables involved.