We listened to The Garden of Happiness. The main character, Marisol, pants a sunflower seed in a new neighborhood garden. When autumn comes and her flower dies, Marisol gets discouraged. Her happiness returns, however, when she discovers that a group of teenagers has painted a mural of sunflowers on a brick wall nearby. This week’s topics:
· Writing – Review friendly letter – Send in a stamped envelope!!!!
· Fluency – discuss the rates of fluency that are applied to different stories for different reasons
· Vocabulary –inhaled, lavender, mural, skidded, haze
· Spelling – /ur/ as in turtle and learn
This week we’ll continue practicing the 6 steps of multiplication. The sequence has been glued onto our math journals. We’ll also review factors and multiples.
This week’s topics:
· Estimate products of two-digit numbers
· Multiply two-digit numbers
· Review factors vs. multiples
· Review and test (Friday)
We have begun our Tribal Sign Project! Each student was randomly placed in one on the five Iroquois nations. The teams have assigned roles within their groups. They’ll be researching for information on clans, alternate names, food, map, and gustoweh (arrangement of eagle feathers on hat). Each group will create a poster that highlights the new information learned in each area (independently) and group poster that showcases their tribe. They are very excited!
