I hope everyone is enjoying Spring Break!
A little recap on what the kids were up to these last few weeks:
At the end of the 3rd quarter, the students worked hard to write book reviews. The students first wrote book reviews on a book of their choice and recorded themselves reading the review into the computer program, Pixie. For their second round of book reviews, we did an author study on Tomie dePaola. After reading several of his books the kids chose their favorite book to review.
In reading groups, the students read novels and had literature discussion circles! The students asked questions to one another and had conversations about the story.
Plans for when we return:
Reading: The students will make inferences while reading their reading group books.
Writing: We will share the book reviews with one another. The students will start on their research reports.
Math: The first unit of the quarter will be multiplication and division. The students will learn how to multiply a two or three-digit number with regrouping. They will learn more than one way to multiply. Here are some methods they kids will learn:
- Using base ten blocks as a visual representation.
- Partitioning method: where they will break the numbers down in a variety of ways.
- Traditional algorithm to multiply.
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