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.
