December 10th

Blog written by the students of Room 14

We have had a busy week in room 14.  We had the Holiday Shop on Wednesday.  We started using Google Classroom in our class to discuss books and post our thinking.

In Readers' Workshop this week, we have been working on making claims about characters and providing evidence to support our claims.  We also read a book called Voices In a Park by Anthony Browne.  There was a little girl (Smudge), a little boy (Charles), the mother and a father.  We were in different groups as different character perspectives. We used the book to analyze character voice and perspectives.


In writer’s workshop we are finishing our Tall Tales. Also we are working on “Voice.” We are starting our writing project. Some of us are drafting our projects.


In math we are working on fractions.  Specifically reducing, adding, equivalent and subtracting fractions.  We also played a game called "Fraction of" and it is about seeing how many times a fraction can going into a whole number.   

In science, we have been working on physical and chemical reactions.  We are doing experiments that create really cool items.  We made chalk and weird fizzing stuff that we think is Sprite.  

In Social Studies, we have been studying the first colonies in the "New World." We have been learning about The New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. This week each of us are assigned to a colony and we need to write pretending to be colonist.