Authors' Celebration
/The weeks are flying by! In writer's workshop we've been discussing writing conventions. Students are becoming quite proficient at catching the intentional errors in our morning message. Last week students had the chance to meet individually with a teacher to look for errors in their own salmon books. They fixed "sneaky capitals", made sure their sentences began with a capital letter, checked for ending punctuation, and made sure grade-appropriate words were spelled correctly. Yesterday we had a lovely authors’ celebration where student authors shared their books and received compliments from peers! Last week in math we continued our group exploration of geometry and fractions. We created three dimensional shapes and examined various world flags to determine whether each flag design was composed of halves, thirds, fourths, or other equivalent fractions. Mathematicians had to cut, fold, or mark up the paper flags to prove their case and make their argument in front of the class. Some of our small math groups are also working on measurement concepts. Last week we wrapped up our mini unit on civil rights as well. Over the last couple weeks we learned about the bill of rights and talked about what rights people have. We talked a little about the founding of our country and which groups of people were not granted the same rights when our country was founded. We talked about amendments that granted rights to certain groups of people (specifically amendment 13 and 19 came up in our conversations). We read about inspirational leaders such as Martin Luther King, Malala Yousafzai, Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Caddy Stanton, Ruby Bridges, and others who had the courage to fight for the rights of themselves and others. We greatly enjoyed the sunshine and multiple picnics outside last week. We even got to watch an excavator demolishing the sidewalk near our outdoor classroom and we took a trip to the library. In our outdoor classroom we have been filling our bird feeders with bird seed each week. It’s be fun to observe different bird species visiting the feeder.
