As you have noticed the weather this week was a bit dreary. We, however, had a very sunny week in our room. Students are being extremely engaged in our work and are deepening their understanding in all academic and social areas.
We have been investigating Vermont State Symbols. Along with this work we are also learning about different features found in non-fiction text. Students have been working on books, we are using Google Slides for this work. They have also practiced taking notes from resources, changing those notes into text, and finally choosing which words in this text to embolden and define in a glossary!
Another focus has been retelling and summarizing the books we are reading. We have returned our focus to the difference between these two skills, and students are working on remembering that a retell is full of details and a summary is based on themes.
In math place value and digits have been our focus this week. We have been looking at multiplication algorithms, like 243 X 10 = ____. From this we have been figuring what the largest place value in the product will be, as well as the digit that will be in that place value.
Our discussions have also taken a turn, we have been working with Mrs. Christy to nurture discussion protocols with students, as well as to have students lead and choose the discussion protocols to use. This happened this week! Students chose texts to read, read and investigated them, met as a group, chose which protocol they thought would be most appropriate and finally used the protocol in a student directed manner! This ownership of learning and engaged underlines the effort these students are putting into our discussion work.
As always, have a restful and relaxing weekend.
Dave
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