Friday January 16
Good afternoon, Here are some highlights of what we were learning this week: Literacy: We practiced the reading strategy of making predictions in order to improve our comprehension. We continued reading the novel Odder by Katherine Applegate. It is written in free verse form, a type of poetry. We finished writing paragraphs, and then used a rubric to complete a self-assessment. We know that a good paragraph must have an indent, have a topic sentence, three details, and a concluding sentence. We started learning about the genre of biographies. Everyone got a book about a particular person and we read it looking for the "5Ws" (who, what, when, where, why). Ask your child who they read about. Math: We focused on algebra. Specifically, we focused on the preservation of equality and solving for unknown quantities (making sure both sides of an equation are equal and isolating the variable). Next we focused on using algebra to write and solve operations for real w...