Week 5

Another week has come and gone!  It feels so good to be in the swing of things.  All of our first units are in full force and there has been a lot of learning happening!  Check out some highlights below:

Math:

• We took the pre-assessment for unit one and then scored it keep track of what each student needs
• We began our first unit all about the decimal place value system, powers of ten and mentally multiplying and dividing by powers of ten
• Math Menu continued with Student Choice, Edpuzzle videos, Teacher Lesson and Exit Ticket
• Learned about standard, expanded and word form of decimals
• Learned how to read and write decimals

Literacy:

• Focused on deep levels of thinking while reading
• Learned to read with a writerly wide awakeness 
• Learned a few different forms of poetry
• Practice writing fall poetry and began creating an art project to go with it
• We continue to read aloud Scar Island
• Book Club will be coming soon for our first unit!
• Mr. Burch did a lesson about being digitally kind
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Social Studies:

• We continued Three Worlds Meet unit
• Students looked at the Americas before exploration through the lens of the 5 themes of geography (place, location, region, human-environment interaction and movement)
• Students are beginning to understand how vastly different the Americas were pre-exploration
• We will take a look at Europe next

Buddies:

We participated in our first STEM challenge as buddies!  Students had one piece of paper and a small amount of tape.  Their task was to create the longest paper chain!

Important Dates

Enrichment starts the week of October 8th

Columbus Day is Monday, October 8th