Is it just me, or did November speed by? We have been working hard and learning so much. Here's what we've been up to.
LITERACY-
- identified and highlighted details from a text to support our ideas in response to a prompt
- distinguished when to quote and when to paraphrase text evidence
- cited text evidence
- drafted sentences to further elaborate on text evidence, specifically to show how text evidence answers the prompt
- explored three letter consonant blends in spelling
- identified past, present and future tense in verbs
- Started my favorite book of all time, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
MATH-
- explored finding area of a rectangle using square tiles
- explored using multiplication as a strategy to find area of a rectangle
- developed a conceptual understanding behind multiplying the number of rows by the number of columns in a rectangle to find the area
- deepened our conceptual understanding of finding area by multiplying the lengths of adjacent sides to find the area
- broke (decomposed) figures into multiple rectangles. Found the areas of individual rectangles within the shape and added them together to find the area of the total shape.
- made multiple rectangles with the same area but differing side lengths
SOCIAL STUDIES
- located and identified southern states in several different regions within the US.
- discussed distinguishing features of different regions including climate, geography, and landmarks
- started our winter holidays unit with student presentation of Diwali. Avyan delivered a fascinating power point presentation and shared gifted lanterns to his classmates.
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