Friday, December 13, 2013

5V News

We are learning about:

  • Division
  • Persuasive writing
  • Building theories about characters
  • Early European explorers
Some activities we did this week:
  • Practiced long division
  • Interpreted remainders in division problems
  • Brainstormed issues at the school, community and world level for our persuasive writing
  • Chose three topics for our persuasive writing and brainstormed arguments for and against 
  • Created an outline of our persuasive essays 
  • Continued researching our European explorer
  • Began creating an explorer information sheet on Google Docs
  • Explored Google Templates
  • Studied the objects that the characters in our books hold close to them
  • Had some great class discussions after reading Wonder for our read aloud book 
  • Learned about topics of our choice during Genius Hour
Notes and reminders:
  • Our holiday celebration is Thursday, December 19th.  Students should bring in a new, or nearly new, wrapped book for our book swap.  Students are welcome to bring them in anytime before that.  
Have a great weekend!

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