January 19th

Our classroom happenings: Reading-We just finished exploring changes in character with our class shared book Because of Winn Dixie and the kids are now in Mystery Detective Clubs! They will  explore mysteries as they meet in Detective Book clubs and discuss clues and suspects with the other members of their group.  We will also make predictions during reading and confirm and adjust predictions as a skill to sharpen our comprehension.  We are learning what a red herring is and will be on the lookout for them as we read our mystery books.   Writing-We joined Ms. Crowley's class in a snowman exchange by drawing a creative picture of a snowman, writing a detailed description of our snowman, and then giving just our writing piece to a buddy in Ms. Crowley's class to see how close he/she could come to our drawing. Her class did the same thing with us and our finished pieces and drawings are hanging in the halls.  Math-We have begun a unit on fractions while continuing to practice computation and our multiplication facts.  Content-This week we will finish our unit on land forms, share our glogs and we'll begin studying the American Revolution next week.  Technology-We are now glog experts! We made glogs on the causes of the American Revolution and our land form glogs will be posted soon!!  :)    *Check our calendar for other important dates.