The students are enjoying their special projects! For Social/Emotional Learning, both classes continue to learn with Ms. Gregg about being a good friend and standing up for others.
During Language Arts, the third graders are working on defining and identifying rhyme schemes and other poetry elements using Judith Viorst’s poem "Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog" and other famous historical children’s poems. Writing opinion paragraphs using the writing process was super fun, trying to convince the reader to have a dog or a snake as a pet. With Pam Bator, the class wrote individual poems using the “I am from...” format, based on the Kentucky author George Ella Lyon. The poems beautifully depict each child’s character and personality! Thank you, Pam, for all the support you offer our fortunate classes!
Across the hall, fourth and fifth-graders are finishing up their biography research project. During their research, a text-feature scavenger hunt and over 100 text features were found! The students created cloth puppets to depict the character from their research project.
In Math, third graders are in the middle of their unit on interpreting descriptions, diagrams, and expressions that represent division situations. They have loved creating posters to demonstrate different mathematical situations, then having a gallery walk to provide peer feedback. While the fourth graders have been busy ordering and comparing decimals. At the same time, the fifth graders are focusing on multiplying fractions.
Be sure to ask your fourth or fifth-grader to share what they learned in their turtle research project with you!
