This week we will be looking at ways to stay in the present moment. With so much going on around us, we can get distracted and act without thinking. Taking moments to breathe, pause, and focus will help us process and act mindfully.
We will be completing our first expository this week! We've learned outlines with introductions, examples, supporting details, and conclusions. As a class, we developed rubrics to help us evaluate the quality of our work. Our critical friends have been giving KSH (kind, specific, helpful) feedback along the way. We look forward to sharing these this week with parents and administration. You are an important audience and your kids are very motivated knowing you will be hearing their voices. We continue working on compound and complex sentences. Finding conjunctions, commas, subjects, and predicates...that's our jam! In reading, we will be exploring stories of the season. In math, we will challenge ourselves with a new tool with multi step word problems -- strip diagrams. This will provide us with a visual representation to represent problems and understand the operations needed to solve the problem. Students will learn to understand the context of the problem to be able to create a strip diagram that accurately represents the thinking and solving they need to think through. In science, we will look at a new challenge based on the 14 UN Sustainable Goals: clean energy. We will investigate this by critically thinking about infographics, articles, and the design process. On Friday, we will celebrate with a winter party. Look for emails from room parents for details! Hang in there everybody -- we are almost to a well deserved break! Let's finish strong!
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