In Readers' Workshop we have been working on articulating our theories as we are reading and supplying evidence for our thinking. We have been working on ways to organize our ideas using our reader's notebooks, sticky notes, and conversations. We have also been working on prompts for productive classroom discussions. We are working on listening to what our classmates say and building on each others' thinking. See the chart below with a list of our conversation prompts.
In Writers' Workshop we have been finishing up our memoirs. We have also started a genre study on Tall Tales. We have read several Tall Tales and we are charting the characteristics we notice as we read. Soon we will be writing our own Tall Tales.
In Science this week, we have been preparing for our first Benchmark Assessment. We took our first BA today.
In Social Studies we reviewed Columbus, Pizarro, and Cortes and determined which was the worst conquistador. Ask your fifth grader which conquistador he or she thought was the worst. Then we studied French explorers. This week we studied Giovanni da Verrazanno, Fransisco Pizarro, and Jacques Cartier.
Math was a challenge this week. The 5th graders were introduced to traditional division. We have done division in three ways (area model, partial quotients, and traditional). Please practice division at home!
Boo Bash/Fun Run and Halloween
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