3/4F News for September 27, 2007
The Manoa Mountains are busy preparing their Math Adventure projects for presentation on Monday at 10:00 AM. Each student will prepare a speech and poster with the problem and two different solutions to share with the class. All planning sheets have been approved already. We look forward to some very interesting and challenging problems and solutions.
The class would like to thank BK for his donation of three birthday books to the classroom library. They are from the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. The titles are Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, and Forest of Secrets. Everyone will have the opportunity to read these great books.
CK celebrated her birthday yesterday by sharing strawberry baked mochi with the class. Everyone enjoyed the delicious treats!
Our work continues every day as we read and respond to Literature Circle Hawaiian legends by answering comprehension questions, doing a plot chart with pictures, and writing a report about the story. Discussions have been very lively and helpful. We also learned ten new vocabulary words, wrote sentences with the words, and drew pictures of their meanings in our notebooks. Yesterday we had a lesson on the uses of their, there, and they're in our writing.
Our reading continues to challenge us, and the Manoa Mountains are reading interesting books at their grade levels. Reading Log entries continue to be detailed and thorough. A few students have not completed all the different response choices yet but have begun to repeat some of them. All of the responses need to be done before any can be repeated.
Our math continues to be challenging, with data gathering, graph construction, and interpretation. New words like outliers, revision, and survey have become a part of our math vocabulary this month. I will be sending home the Unit 1 work on Friday for you to keep. We are almost halfway through Unit 2, so the collection of finished papers is growing and we need to empty out our folders.
Writer's Workshop stories continue to be written daily, and many Manoa Mountains have completed several personal narratives, poems, memory pieces, and seed stories. They will begin editing their work with partners and will select a piece to publish and place in their portfolios.
Hawaiian Studies has been fascinating with many legends and discussions about the feats of Maui, the demigod. We have been questioning his outrageous feats of strength as we learn about his encounters with various challenges.
We have been practicing our recycling presentations for sharing with Mrs. Brooks' kindergarten class and Mrs. LeBlanc's first and second grade classes. Our presentations will be made in their classrooms next Friday afternoon.
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