Highlights October 15-18

Reminders:

Home reading and writing due Monday
Our Halloween Assembly is on October 31st and we would like students to dress up in costumes if possible (no weapons)
Purdy's Halloween Pumpkins are $2
Book orders went home today and are due next Thursday October 24

Read below to see what our class was up to this week!

Math

-students reviewed rounding to the nearest 10 and 100
-students moved onto estimating large number and learned a new word - "referent"
AMA the words: Referent and estimation
-below are pictures of their work
-students began "Math Talks" by describing strategies they used during group work activities - there were use of positive language when engaging in group math activities
-students began skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's when sorting and organizing their estimates



Literacy
-students helped to create phase 1 (content) of their writing rubric
-for the next 2 weeks we will use our rubric to self-assess our work
-AMA what a subject and predicate is
-AMA autumn descriptions words using the 5 senses
-we began "Flashlight Friday's"

Flashlight Friday!

AMA "Flashlight Friday's"

Inquiry
-students began exploring Global Citizenship with a look at where we are in the world
-AMA the 7 continents and 5 oceans
-AMA longitude, latitude, equator, and other features of mapping
-AMA the theory of Pangea


Fine Arts
-students learned about Pablo Picasso and how his work incorporates math - shapes and cubism
-students are taking what they learned about Picasso and his art style to create an art piece for our Halloween assembly
-please have students practice their songs at home for the Halloween assembly on October 31st