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We are learning about:

• Estimating
• Collecting ideas in our writer's notebooks
• Metacognition 
• Blogging

Some activities we did this week:

• Took three NECAP tests!
• Continued listening to The One and Only Ivan 
• Blogged with a 5th grade class in North Carolina about Global Read Aloud
• Discussed metacognition- thinking about our thinking
• Used "thinking stems" to discuss our thinking during reading
• Compared thinking stems that refer only to text and thinking stems that refer to text and thinking
• Practiced what we do when we finish books 
• Wrote about our "fierce wonderings" in our writer's notebooks
• Reviewed adding and subtracting with decimals
• Estimated sums and differences
• Solved number stories with a step by step method

Notes and reminders:

• We have three more NECAP tests next week
• I will send home conference reminders in next couple of weeks