Our continued inquiry...

We have continued work on our inquiry about electricity.  Throughout this work there has been incredible teamwork, patience, and learning in our class.  All students are diving into creating circuits, and are working on figuring out how to allow electricity flow through circuits.

We have also been working hard and investigating different shapes during math.  We have worked with triangles and quadrilaterals.  We have learned some of the different attributes of these sorts of shapes.  We have also been working on different vocabulary words associated with different shapes.  Ask your students some of the attributes of triangles and quadrilaterals, as well as what a vertex is, and perhaps even the plural of vertex!

During our literacy time we have continued to work on reading comprehension strategies in book clubs.  We are working on comprehension using short books, as well as reading in the Hobbit.  The Hobbit is a story full of rich characters, and (as Mally pointed out today) lots of turning points.  Ask your student where we are in this story, as well as where we are on the map below!  We have also been working on a couple different writing pieces.  One is an essay where students made observations and subsequently wrote about what that reminded them of.  The other is a piece of non-fiction writing explaining how they solved one of our electricity inquiries.  We also have restarted some explicit instruction in spelling, for the last few weeks spelling instruction has been embedded into writer's workshop, and it is time for it to make a reemergence. 

I hope the weekend is restful and fun, and if you ever need to contact me, please drop me an email at: dwillard@u32.org.