Weekly Reflection 8

Friday February 8                                  Weekly Reflection 

Things we did or learned this week :

 - Continued “ Skills for Success” where students work on math skills at their level then take a small skills quiz to prove they understand the concept. Then they move up to the next harder skill to practice and quiz. For students that can prove they have mastery of grade three level skills ( adding and subtracting to three digits with regrouping ) they can move beyond into multiplying and dividing skills.

• Played various puzzles and games and used chopsticks to pick up objects for counting collections as a way to celebrate Chinese New Year and build our numeracy skills.
• Did an All the facts and a How Many Ways, and Which One Doesn't Belong,plus I-pad games for math and coding.
• We continued with our Literacy routines of Word Work , Journals, and Literacy Centers activities while introducing a new way of organizing our Literacy time , called '' Daily 5 ''. We are practicing increasing our reading stamina ( sitting and reading a book by ourselves for longer and longer while asking ourselves ''Who and What'' to monitor comprehension ).
• Read the legends of Owl,Bear, and Raven.
• Our student teacher , Ms. Henderson read us a story,'' The Word Collector'' and we compared that story to ,''The Boy Who Loves Words''. We then chose words to define and hand on our own word line.
• Practiced and performed a Reader's Theatre to build our fluency skills.
• Chose to read either a Currents for Kids article or Jenna White Mysterys to practice our comprehension skills.
• Reviewed vocabulary for Science, watched a video about convection,conduction and radiation.
• Watched a video about Chinese New Year customs and practied writing keyword notes.
• Reviews the main parts of culture and read story called,'' Milo and the Mysterious island'' in which mice venture to another culture and how to react to others. We then looked for evidence of culture in the story.
• Practiced our balance and tumbling skills in gym with our ,'' Parkour /Gymnastics''.
• Kept researching for our Genius Hour projects.
• We helped our little buddies celebrate 100 Day with counting 100 objects and grouping them.