Highlights from Weeks 19-22!

I've completely fallen off the schedule in the weekly updates! I apologize for delaying in posting pictures and all the things that have been happening in our classroom. We have been busy and worked really hard during the month of February! February was Black History Month and our class studied different artists and made poster projects using everything we learned from our Nonfiction Text reading unit. There were lots of other celebrations and events including: Valentine's Day, field trip to MOHAI, 100th Day of school, and an entire week off for our Mid-Winter Break!

Highlights:
-Students published and a few are still publishing their non-fiction research topics. It was a long unit on learning important skills such as: note-taking, summarizing/paraphrasing, drafting informational text, revising, editing, and keyboarding/formatting. These are all skills that will be a foundation for all other essay writing and reports that students will be required to write in middle and high school. We are getting a head start!
-We finished up our multiplication units and just started a Division unit in math for the 3rd/4th grade group. The 5th grade group started a Fractions unit. The next math test will come up in the next couple of weeks.
-In science, we are continuing to work on our Mineral Guide and doing field tests (just like geologists do!) to learn about each type of mineral for the unit.

-We finished our Nonfiction Reading unit and just started on a Poetry unit for Readers Workshop. It has been really fun to learn and review poetry skills and how to analyze text. We also started a poetry novel by Sharon Creech, called Heartbeat.

Here are some pictures of some of the events that we had the past several weeks! Starting off with our field trip, Valentine's Day treats, 100th Day activities, and a visit to a weekend chess tournament!