11/30/2018 0 Comments What Is The Purpose?
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SEESAW~
We've been busy incorporating Seesaw into our reading and math lessons. Once we each have an assortment of work to show, you can view all of our amazing effort through the seesaw code/link. In case you're not familiar with this app, seesaw is an online portfolio where students can display their work. Whether it's practicing our fluency, articulating predictions and backing them up with evidence or demonstrating our math strategies, we're all working hard at speaking clearly, working cooperatively with partners and taking ownership of our learning WRITING~ Since we all experienced a SMALL MOMENT worthy story together, our cancelled field trip, we decided to all write the 'same' story. This way we'll be able to see first hand the variety of versions that can be written of the same moment. Some of us are starting with dialogue, some are starting from the moment we woke up on the day of the field trip. Others decided to jump right to school and stretch out the bus ride. We're excited to see the end result and share our final drafts. READING~ We are gearing up for our individual book clubs. We're excited to begin reading the same books with friends, discussing the story elements, illustrating our 'mental movies', discussing them on SEESAW, responding to them in writing and so much more! MATH~ We continue to practice ALL the different strategies we use for solving 2 and 3-digit addition and subtraction problems. We're also recognizing specific math vocabulary that give us clues as to HOW we solve a problem - how many more, how many less, difference, all together. Being able to solve a problem in different ways and still get the same answer is something we can practice anywhere and at anytime. Please ask to play this fun and simple math game! Get a white board and marker. It's definitely more exciting this way! SCIENCE~ We observed! We wondered! We questioned! This is what all good paleontologists do! After studying our findings and writing down questions, we then learned about a specific technique for writing questions. Once we get all of our questions down, we even study those! If we have any non-scientific questions, we cross them out. Once we have our collection of scientific questions, we place them into categories - open questions or closed questions. We all had opinions about what made a question open or closed. We then divided our questions even further into specific learning sequences - fossils / environment / life cycle / connecting living things and fossils / characteristics and traits. Then, we brainstormed all the different ways that paleontologists find out information about fossils as well as what clues they look for to determine the kind of fossil. There's one common element running throughout all of our science activities - there's no right or wrong answer! As a matter of fact, there are no answers given. They will all come from us after we've observed, wondered, questioned, discussed and observed some more. Once we brainstormed and discussed our thoughts and findings as a whole group, we broke off into smaller paleontology groups. Each group received a different fossil. We then presented our clues and prediction to the class. We can't wait to see where all of this is headed for next week.....stay tuned! |
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