Homeroom
We began a social studies unit on immigration by learning about what it was like for immigrants to arrive in the United States at Ellis Island 100 years ago. In the coming weeks, students will be working in groups to study different immigrant groups and the contributions they've made to our country.
Math
Our third math unit is all about multiplication. Students are learning multiple strategies for solving multiplication problems: making area models, breaking apart large numbers, and finding partial products.
ELA
Students are hard at work revising their personal narratives. This week we talked about the writing strategy "show not tell." Ask you child about how they used video to help them describe the action in their stories! In our reading groups we practiced story mapping. Students identified the main characters and their traits, described the setting, and wrote about the problem, solution, and theme. They summarized their reading by identifying important details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Fun on Friday!
Our math class really enjoys practicing their multiplication facts by playing a competitive dice game called Multiplication War. In ELA, we lounged on bean bag chairs during independent reading time -- many students were surprised by how much they read today and very proud of themselves!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs. Kyle
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