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Math:
In math, we continue to explore 3-D objects. Students are learning about the edges, faces, and vertices of different objects, as well as what pollens make them up. Right now, we are focusing on prisms. Prisms have 2 identical ends, and the sides are parallelograms. They are also trying their artistic hand in drawing out the different prisms.
Writing (Mrs. Hordyk's and Mr. Mackenzie's classes):
The classes have been split into 3 groups, and we are all learning the same thing, just in a smaller group environment. This week's focus has been on writing paragraphs - a topic sentence, 3 supporting sentences, with detail, and a reiteration of the topic sentence. The book that was the springboard into this activity has been The Important Book, by Margaret Wise Brown. It has been interesting and enlightening to find out what the students consider important and why.
Writing (Mrs. Predika's and Mrs. Redd's classes):
Our writing focus this week has been studying strong verbs that authors use to paint a picture in our minds. Students have shared, acted out, and made good inferences for the words. They are adding the verbs to their Words, Words, Words book. They next step will be to look at the structure of a narrative story, mainly looking at character-problem-solution.
Question of the day:
What is your favorite strong verb and why? Use it in a sentence.
I had some problems uploading the blog. Hopefully it is working now.
Math:
In math, we continue to explore 3-D objects. Students are learning about the edges, faces, and vertices of different objects, as well as what pollens make them up. Right now, we are focusing on prisms. Prisms have 2 identical ends, and the sides are parallelograms. They are also trying their artistic hand in drawing out the different prisms.
Writing (Mrs. Hordyk's and Mr. Mackenzie's classes):
The classes have been split into 3 groups, and we are all learning the same thing, just in a smaller group environment. This week's focus has been on writing paragraphs - a topic sentence, 3 supporting sentences, with detail, and a reiteration of the topic sentence. The book that was the springboard into this activity has been The Important Book, by Margaret Wise Brown. It has been interesting and enlightening to find out what the students consider important and why.
Writing (Mrs. Predika's and Mrs. Redd's classes):
Our writing focus this week has been studying strong verbs that authors use to paint a picture in our minds. Students have shared, acted out, and made good inferences for the words. They are adding the verbs to their Words, Words, Words book. They next step will be to look at the structure of a narrative story, mainly looking at character-problem-solution.
Question of the day:
What is your favorite strong verb and why? Use it in a sentence.