Happy 100th Day of school!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Writer's Workshop
We started a new unit,and genre, this week in Writer's Workshop- opinion writing! We are learning how to state our opinions and how to back them up with reasons.
This week everyone brought in a shoebox collection. We put on our 'judge's' hat and learned how to judge our collection in order to determine a winner.
After we determined our 'winner' it was time to convince others by writing our opinions. Throughout the week we learned that in order to convince, or persuade, others we must give reasons and details.
We learned how to use a checklist in order to revise our opinion writing.
Finally, on Friday we learned that everyone has differnt opinions. It is ok to disagree with someone as long as you can respectfully explain why. We judged our writing partner's collection and them wrote whether we agreed or disagreed and why.
Reader's Workshop
We wrapped up our unit in realistic fiction this week!
We learned that characters can learn lessons in stories by how they change throughout the story. On Friday, we reflected on the big lesson Ruthie learned in:
Next week we will start a 3 week unit on biographies. We will be focusing on the lives of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Dr. Seuss!
Math Workshop
This wee we focused on:
Determining if we are adding ones, tens, or both when adding numbers.
Adding a one digit number to a two digit number. We focused on totals that made a new ten group. Look at the many ways we know how to solve this type of equation!
We also learned how to compare two digit numbers using less than, greater than, and equal to.
Comparing three numbers for and extra challenge!
Wow! What a week!
Have a great weekend!
Love,
Mrs. Hogue
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