Jan 19-22

Reading 3rd and 4th:
We continued working on main ideas and supporting details. We had a Latin/Greek test. The students did great on this test!  This week we will have a spelling test on Thursday. Please remind your student to study.

Writing:
We finished our inventor papers. The students typed their papers using different text freatures. Some of the students finished early and researched a person for Black History Month.

Grammar:
We reviewed and then took an assessment on simple and compound sentences. The students all did great on this assessment!

Projects:
We reviewed the different types of simple machines. We then went over the requirements for our egg drop project. Then they got with their partner and came up with two prototypes. They picked one and decided on what materials will be needed. The students are very excited about this project and many want to work on it at home, however they must only work on it at school with their partner. They can bring materials from home that are needed if they want.

1/12- 1/15

Reading:
We worked on finding the main idea and supporting details.  This has been quite tricky for them so we will continue working on it again this week.  We also are working on nonfiction text.  So far we are doing this in bookclub together in order to make sure we are going back into the text to support our answers.  Next week I hope to start edmodo again.  We will get new spelling words this week and have a Latin/Greek test on Thursday.

Writing:
We continued writing our inventor papers.  As students finish they are typing up their paper using the different text features that we have learned about.  They are then going to use this to create a newspaper page.

Grammar:
We reviewed subject, predicate and simple sentences.  We then combined the simple sentences to make a compound sentence using a conjunction.

Projects:
We learned about simple machines this week.  The students moved through different centers to learn about each of the simple machines.  We briefly talked about our next project the "egg drop".  The students are going to design a complex machine with their partner in order to get their egg safely to the floor.  In partners the students will design their prototypes this week.

Report card time!

Be sure to look for your child's report card. I had them put them in their binders.  Have a great weekend!