Writing: Room 120 writers challenged themselves to write multi-paragraph opinion pieces about their favorite books. In the later part of the week we continued to push our writing skills by finding evidence in our books to support our opinions. We worked on quoting the text to show evidence!
Math: This week we focused on adding two digit numbers. Our main strategy was solving problems using the cross number puzzle. Next week we’ll learn about how to use the cross number puzzles to subtract two digit numbers.
Social Studies: In social studies we continued to talk about the theme of movement by looking at labels of objects in our classroom to see where they were made. We also learned about the theme of human-environment interactions and created packing lists for imaginary places that showed how environment affects us.
Fundations: This week we worked on spelling multisyllabic words with the long e sound.
Second Step: We brainstormed a list of strategies for how to help a friend who is being bullied after reading a book called Say Something in which a girl witnesses bullying, but doesn’t do anything about it until she is bullied herself. We discussed that the term bystander means someone who witnesses bullying.
What does it mean to show evidence for your opinion in writing? How did you use your book to do this?
How does breaking a number into tens and ones help you to add quickly?
Dates to Remember:
Tuesday 3/28 Chambers Street Field Trip
Friday 3/31 Scholastic Book Orders Due
Friday 4/14 No School
4/17-4/21 April Vacation
Monday 5/1 Peabody Museum Field Trip