We thought a lot about dialogue this week. Authors use dialogue to make their stories more interesting to read, and to show you what different characters are saying. Dialogue is a great way to move a story along without having to just tell your reader everything that is happening. There are several important conventions we use to show dialogue, and we looked closely at these this week.
Writer's Workshop
We started to think about the play we will perform later this spring!
We worked on our own versions of Little Red Riding Hood. We were careful to include dialogue in our stories, and to choose interesting words to use to indicate who is saying what, and how they are saying it.
Math
Monday was the 100th day of school! We did many math activities to celebrate, including taking 100 steps down the hallway to see how far we would go!
We continued to work with multiplication of 2's, 5's, and 10's. We worked on word problems that require multiplication or skip counting. Here is one we tried:
Jake has 7 jars. Each jar has 5 pickles in it. How many more jars does he need to have 45 pickles in all?
You can practice skip counting by these numbers at home! Have your little sister or your dad or your grandmother pick a number you should start on, then skip count from there!
Science
We constructed and tested flood protection solutions that would save our houses from a stream table flood. After we tested, we identified strengths and weaknesses (we call them plusses and deltas), then wrote about what happened with our strategy.
We also tested solutions to prevent a stream from eroding the land. Each group could use just 1 material. We had: sticks, rocks, a clay wall, a cardboard wall, and window mesh.
Social Studies
Ms. Notaro came in to talk with our class about the "zones of regulation." What are the zones? Each zone represents and energy level and emotional state that you might have, from low-energy blue to very high red. Have your student explain what the different zones are, and some strategies to move back to green.
News and Other Information
Our morning meeting questions:
- What is your favorite game?
- How do you show kindness?
- What is a talent you have?
- What are you doing for vacation?
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