During our math lesson in the morning, the kids looked to interpret numerical patterns in a table and to use symbolic letter notation to represent the value of various quantities. This was productive lesson and one that we will look to build upon throughout the rest of the week.
As a reminder, on Friday, the fifth graders are welcome to bring in Valentine's Day cards for their classmates.
We spent more time in the ELA portion of the day working on our narrative essays. The fifth graders worked in pairs to compose their proof paragraphs. We ended the lesson by sharing our some of our key plot elements in the whole class. Lots of creativity from the fifth graders.
I hope everyone has a nice weekend. Go Patriots.
Each of the students worked on drafting the lead paragraph of their narrative essay during our ELA time. There was a discussion about the parts of a strong lead and then the kids worked in pairs to compose the beginning of their essays. We will continue this work tomorrow, as we shift our attention to the proof or body paragraphs.
The fifth graders began to formulate their narrative essays during ELA this morning. Each of the kids used a graphic organizer to begin gathering the elements of their story. Tomorrow, we will look to draft our lead paragraph.
A303 welcomed its newest member during morning meeting. Romeo, the ball python, will be in the classroom for the next few weeks. The students learned about pythons and were able to make some observations about Romeo. There was lots of excitement in the roo
During math class we continued to interpret values of the points on coordinate grids and the shape of a graph. The kids are doing a nice job with these early unit 5 lessons.
