LANGUAGE
READING
We are finishing up
focusing on Questioning as our reading strategy. Using our class read alouds
(Grade 4 – Undergrounders, Grade 5 – The Giant Slayer) we have collected some
thick questions. We took one of the questions and using the APE model we
answered it. Students were also placed in groups and read articles on real
world issues and created their own thick questions. Next week the students will
be given a non-fiction article and a thick question and will have to answer it
using the APE model.
A- Answer the Question (use part of the question in your answer)
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P – Prove it (what is your evidence/facts)
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E- Explain/Extend (make connections to your own life/experiences/other things you’ve seen or read. Explain how it relates to your answer)
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WRITING
Both the Grade 4’s and 5’s are working on descriptive writing. 
Some examples of Descriptive Writing
* report
* newspaper
* magazine article
* poem
* letter
* speech
* question and answer *texts
This week students used their senses to describe a variety of objects. Using descriptive words the students tried to describe the objects in as many ways as they could.
MATH
We are still working on our 3D Geometry unit.
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Grade 4 and 5 Students are expected to…
* identify and describe prisms and pyramids, and classify them by their geometric properties (i.e., shape of faces, number of edges, number of vertices), using concrete materials
*draw and describe nets of rectangular and triangular prisms (Sample problem: Create as many different nets for a cube as you can, and share your results with a partner.)
* construct three-dimensional figures (e.g., cube, tetrahedron), using only congruent shapes
* construct a three-dimensional figure from a picture or model of the figure, using connecting cubes (e.g., use connecting cubes to construct a rectangular prism)
* construct skeletons of three-dimensional figures, using a variety of tools (e.g., straws and modeling clay, toothpicks and marsh- mallows, Polydrons), and sketch the skeletons;
* construct prisms and pyramids from given nets;
Grade 5 students are also expected to…
*identify prisms and pyramids from their nets;
*distinguish among prisms, right prisms, pyramids, and other three-dimensional figures;
A reminder, Math Help is every Wednesday and Friday and is open to all students in my Grade 4 and Grade 5 class. As well after any quiz if a student would like a re-quiz they should be coming to math help and asking for help in order to do the re-quiz.
ART
Connecting to our Geometry unit, students are creating optical illusions using shapes.
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