Friday May 1
Good afternoon, Here is some of what we have been working on this week: Math: - adding and subtracting decimals numbers, including with money - continued practice with multiplication and division fact fluency - continued practice with estimation using "Esti-Mysteries" Literacy: - continued our Book Club groups, reading Stone Fox. We are about to read chapter 10. Our jobs include: summary director, prediction director, art illustrator director, discussion director, opinion director, and dictionary director. - possessive nouns (aunt, aunts, aunt's, aunts') - started learning about poetry - Teacher Time: we read our chapter books out loud to the teacher - writing two paragraphs about the fur trade - cursive j, k, l - We are starting a new read aloud called Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Social Studies: - women in the fur trade (their roles and why they matter) - two companies, Hudson Bay Company and North West Company, who bought and sold furs and other goods for pr...