Daily Wrap up- November 28th

We were focused on Centers today, so we got through half of these and we’ll finish the other half tomorrow! 🙂

~Reading Center- Find the Similies and Metaphors in Letting Swift River Go and illustrate one of each on the large chart paper!

~ELA- Create an ornament and write a list of as many different prepositions representing what that ornament can do as you can think of! The group with the longest list WINS a Fuzzy! (example: ON a tree, IN a box)

~Math- This one was differentiated based on what folks needed work on. So, you may have done fact familys and flash cards, Greatest Product, or Division Round Up!

~Science- Build a thermometer and rain guage! We’re even building a real rain gauge out of 2L bottles that have been donated to the class and stashing them at various spots around the school for students to check and report back on throughout the month!

~Social Studies- We’re watching a video on the Middle Colonies and taking notes from it!

~Writing- RAFT-

R- World traveler

A- Mrs. Franklin

F- Letter

T- What I saw while traveling in England and France this week!

~Library- Main and Class Library Check out!

 

Tonight’s Homework- 

Math- Gift Division-  Row 2

Vocabulary- Project is due on FRIDAY!!! 

 

A special SHOUT OUT and THANKS A HEAP to a few elves who purchased books from the book fair for our classroom (and ME!!!) today! I’ve found these books on B&N and linked them to the picture so you can see why I’m so excited!!

Sherry and Randy bought me Cinder! 

Jackson bought me Wonderstruck!

Sarah bought be NERDS (2)!

 

And Sam brought me a little sticky note holder with sticky notes in it!!! Did I mention that I LOVE sticky notes?? 😉

 

Oh, and maybe one of you can help me figure out why Brewster decided to climb into the big jar with the dragon? Or maybe why he has the string of lights I left out yesterday afternoon? I seriously wish he was awake while we were here so he could explain himself…

What we did in class today and tonight’s homework:

What we did in class today:

Reading- We talked a lot about Voice and read another chapter from Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. Using comprehension cards, we explored how much we already knew about the story just from reading the first two chapters! We also started working on Inference by drawing conclusions about what was about to happen or what some things inside the story meant (for example, the Preacher wasn’t really listening to Opal when she came home from the store until she mentioned someone staying with them for a while. Ask your student how we figured that out!).

HOMEWORK= Unit 2 vocabulary- Week 1 menu items. Three assignments from the week 1 menu will be due on Friday!

Math- We talked about the Properties of Addition and Subtraction today, since these WILL come up again when we talk about multiplication and division!

HOMEWORK= HWB 3.1

ELA-

Grammar- We are starting our Big ‘Ol Verb page in our notebooks and action verbs are the easiest thing to talk about there so we started with that!

Writing- We are starting some RAFT writing, where I give them a role, an audience, a format and a topic and they get to go crazy writing their piece to publish each week. Our focus for this writing piece will be Voice, since that’s what we’re talking about in Reading, too. This week’s RAFT is:

Role- an Environmentalist

Audience- Aliens from Mars

Format- a story

Topic- our favorite season

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

Social Studies- We are beginning our exploration of the Native American Tribes. Today we chose the tribes we’d like to research so we could get started!

HOMEWORK- Begin researching your tribe!

Science- We continued our discussion about Food Chains, talking about how our Oh, Deer! activity last week presented information relative to a food chain and how natural selection works in an environment.

 

Hope everyone had a great day! 🙂