"April weather, rain and sunshine both together."
We began our week with new vocabulary and spelling words. Students seemed to enjoy getting back into the routine after last week's testing. Our new Anchor Text is a humorous fiction titled Judy Moody Saves the World. This story has some great themes in it such as conservation and recycling.
Students took the spelling pretest this morning. Our rule involves the vowel +r sound in words with air and ear. Students will have an assignment to work on each night this week. The test will be given this Friday.
Our PEA Reading Buddies came for a visit this morning. Students continued reading The Gadget War with them. This humorous chapter book tells the story of Kelly and her battle with Albert to become the class Gadget Wiz!
We will continue with Unit 7 in math this week. Students will be asked to represent fractions on number lines, identify fractions greater than, less than, and equal to one on a number line, compare fractions using visual models, order fractions with the same numerator and write a rule for ordering similar sets of fractions. Students will have a Home Link each night for homework.
Our class is loving our Simple Machine and Invention Unit. Students have begun researching inventions as part of our new PBL (Project Based Learning) activity. We will continue our research using online tools this week and narrow our focus to one individual invention per student or partner group.
Have a fantastic week! :)
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