Ask Me About...- Art/Math - we are making buildings in the style of James Rizzi's Happy House in Germany. We will be measuring the volume and are using congruent shapes in the design of our buildings. - We have been working on problems in our Daily Math time - we doubled the volume of a rectangular solid, found congruent shapes, and worked to determine which operation would help us to solve a problem. - Social Studies - Iroquois second info-graphics for our nations - Science - wrting - main idea sentence starters, leads - Math - We learned to measure angles using a protractor, to classify triangles as scalene, equilateral, isosceles (Check out the games for practice in our links) and learned how to find the measure of angles in a straight line and a triangle when given the measure of other angles. - We revised our Quest stories for dialogue and paragraphs and handed them in. - Literacy - the grade 5s are writing an Earth Day personal response using information gathered from more than one source. We have been using the Expository Pillar strategy for organizing our thinking and are using main idea sentence starters to write the middle paragraphs. Next week we will look at introductions with strong leads and conclusions that summarize our main idea. Grade 6s have revisited some planning techniques and organizational strategies for writing news articles in preparation for our Writing PAT next Thursday. - Gym - we have been learning to play flag football with Mr. Arron. - Granted - is getting repetitive; Ophelia still hasn't granted the wish. Upcoming ... - Marsh Madness (Ralph Klein Park) field trip is Monday - check the weather and be prepared to be outside for the day; dress in layers, bring a backpack, a water bottle, and a litter-less lunch.
- Tuesday - viewing for Talent Show - at lunch - Thursday - grade 6 Writing PAT Comments are closed.
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