Week of January 13th 2014

Blog Entry –Week of January 13^th

Making a Difference

Our theme as a school right now is focusing on individuals who make have and continue to make a difference. Students have been using their inferencing skills to determine qualities that these individuals posses to discuss some qualities that they feel individuals who make a difference might have.

 LANGUAGE -  READING

This week in Daily 5 we continued to focus on inferencing, a reading comprehension strategy. We have inferred what is happening in pictures using clues from the image and our prior knowledge.

Grade 4 letters are due next week on their Read to Self stop and jots of their thinking during Read to Self times. Grade 5’s handed theirs in this week.

Students did a great job searching in letters for the reading strategies (inferencing, predicting, connecting, and questioning) that were used and the evidence from the text used to support the ideas. 

We will continue to look at short paragraphs to infer from text, and look at characters in our fiction books during read to someone to infer about the characters in our stories.

ART

In Art we reviewed The Elements of Design and focused on the element of Line. 

MATH

This week students have begun to create their own survey question and collect data from their peers to analyze and graph their data.

Math Help

Wednesdays (1^st break) and Fridays (2^nd break)

E-TEXT (a great resource for extra practice)

The pages on the E-text for this unit is…

Grade 4 p. 164-197

Grade 5 p. 156 – 191