In math, we have finished all lessons from Chapter 3 and will be having our test on Monday. Study pages were sent home with students to help them practice for the test. Moving ahead into next week, we will begin to work on subtraction of larger numbers. Students had fun creating numbers in the hundreds with base ten blocks to review place value concepts in centers. Also, take a look at some planes that students engineered from STEM bin materials.
Our study of non-fiction in reading will begin to focus on finding the main idea and supporting details from a section of text. Students are also writing "stop and jot" sticky notes about what they are learning from text features like captions, maps, and diagrams.
We have started our opinion unit in writing. Each child has selected a book with a favorite character in it. They are currently drafting letters that explain why the character they chose is a great character. Students worked hard to outline their reasons and examples using a graphic organizer. Then, they learned how to write an introduction paragraph. Currently, the children are wrapping up their drafts of their first reason with two supporting examples.
Our study of erosion continued in science this week as students worked to answer the question, "How can you stop a landslide?" Teams built cornmeal models of hills and then used a set of given materials to construct something that could protect the hill from rain storms and decrease the amount of erosion. They sketched designs, tested their ideas, and then made observations. Finally, students revised their inventions to make improvements based on what they saw. They learned that some materials worked better than others to cover the hill and absorb water. Many teams were able to engineer creative solutions to prevent the hills from eroding!
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