Reading Celebration…

        After receiving all of the February Vacation Reading Challenge papers, I am pleased to announce that 16 kids read a total of 5,524 minutes!!  Congratulations to all of the readers!  J

Coming Up This Week…

Read Across America Day

        Tomorrow is Read Across America Day in celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday!  We will be having a guest reader in to read to our class.  It will be a great start to the week!

Reading Workshop

        In Reader’s Workshop we are working on comparing and contrasting nonfiction topics this week. We are looking for ways that two topics are similar and different based on evidence from the text.  The kids have gotten really good at finding evidence that shows exactly what they want to say.  We will also be comparing and contrasting two different points of view.  For example we could look at reasons for wearing school uniforms and reasons against it.

Writing Workshop

        In Writer’s Workshop we spent last week taking a closer look at writing personal essays based on a prompt.  The kids got to write about what they would like to learn to do.  We have many eager learners in our classroom.  Their interests included learning how to be a photographer, a cook, a babysitter, a better football and basketball player, a gymnast, learning how to snowboard, and how to be a chemist!  These are just to name a few!  It was great to see all of these interests coming out in their writing.   They got to use all of their expertise from earlier in the year to write this essay.  They also got to add to their learning by thinking about the importance of adding mini stories into their essay. 

        This week we will be taking another look at writing realistic fictional narratives. We will get to review all that we already know about writing in this genre and be able to add to our learning as well. 

Math Workshop

        In math we are continuing to work on fractions.  Last week we spent a lot of time on finding equivalent fractions. We used a lot of visuals to demonstrate how two fractions could be equivalent.  By the end of the week we started to notice a pattern or rule that could be applied to finding equivalent fractions without a visual.  We will continue to work on this rule this week as well. 

This Week’s Good Evening Math….

Attaching the Good Evening Math last week seemed to be helpful if a student forgot their paper at school.  

Here is this week’s Good Evening Math:

Name:  _____________________                               Week of:  March 2^nd

Good Evening Math

Directions: This is a daily review of the math we have learned so far this year.  Please do your thinking on a separate sheet of paper and staple it to this sheet.  Make sure to label each problem on your thinking paper.

Monday	Tuesday
Divide 7,462 by 7 A:	Multiply: a.)     3 x 1/3 b.)     7 x 2/9 c.)     4 x 2/8 A: B: C:
Find two different equivalent fractions for 3/5 A:	List all of the properties of the polygon below that you can think of.
Draw an example of parallel lines and perpendicular lines and label each. A:	List all of the factors of 42. A:
Wednesday	Thursday
Round to the nearest hundred thousand 835,745                     A:	Are 1/3 and 3/16 equivalent?  Explain. A:
Divide 523 by 8 A:	34,823 + A = 65,274 A:
65 x 78 A:	1,267 divided by 4 A:

This Week’s Reading in the Edge Question….

Compare the main character in your book to YOU!  What do you have in common with the character?  What makes you different from the character in your book?  Use one of the ways that you have been taking notes in class to show your thinking this week.  (We have been using a Venn Diagram or a T-Chart)

        

     I have chosen one way to show my thinking.

         I have written down at least 4 similarities that I have to my character.

         I have written down at least 4 differences that I have compared to my character.  (Make sure you have a difference on both sides.)

         I have used some evidence from the text to support my ideas.

         I have edited my answer with one LENS (capitals, punctuation, spelling)-circle one

Just a reminder...

We have a half day of school this Wednesday, March 4th!

I hope everyone has a great week!

Mrs. Lewis