I am Back!

Thank you for your patience with no Blogs last week. As you probably know I have been at home resting because of illness (nothing serious, just a nasty virus). I am so glad to be out of bed and back at school! Luckily for the students, the days went on pretty normally, as our student teacher Mr. Waters just carried on with what we had planned together.

In math we are just about finishing division and are ready to use our mathematical thinking skills to create a division game for you to play when you come in for Student Led interviews next week!

In science, we continue to test beams and pillars and are just about ready to complete the task that Mr. Waters has asked us to do. Ask me about Wilson and what the task is. You will also get to see that at conference time.

After writing a story of our own, we have begun to look at how we can improve our story writing skills. We started by looking at what types of writing there are. We have looked at three types. Ask me what these are. We are looking most closely at stories called Character, Problem, Solution stories. In the next picture book we share together, have me decide what type of book it is. If it is a Character, Problem, Solution book, I can tell you where authors first hint at the problem before we even begin the book! Ask me where it would be.

We related where the problem is in a picture book to fractions. When we were first asked what we knew about fractions, we did not know very much! We are now getting more comfortable with using terms such as 1/2 or 1/4. Help me understand by noticing fractions in everyday life, such as commenting that the cereal box is almost 3/4 empty. By putting fractions into context, I will have a much better understanding of what they mean and what their value is.

Once we decided the story was Character, Problem Solution narrative, we summarized the story and put it into a chart:

The summary of a story is also the pre-writing plan of a story. By getting good at writing summaries, we will be getting good at writing story plans! If we can write a good plan, then we are well on our way to writing a good story.

The highlight of our day today was listening to our guest drummer in music. Ask me about it.