Words
- completed all the syllable principals
- looking at prefixes and suffixes to encode words
Multiplication
- estimating
- using estimates to find reasonable answers in multiplication
- multiplying multi-digit numbers
- multiplying by decimals
- learning to read, solve and explain word problems with multiplication
Science
- Why does the sun rise and set?
- Who set the first clocks?
- Why do stars change with the seasons?
History
- 5 themes of geography
- What was happening in Europe, Africa and the Americas prior to 1490's
- How the three continents engaged with each other
- The Columbian Exchange and the impact it had/has on Europe, Africa and the Americas
Reading
- Finished Pax and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
- defined theme
- learned how to develop new ideas from multiple plots
- took quality notes to generate new ideas, explore and develop themes
- expanded these ideas in writing supported with evidence from the text
- participated in two book groups
Writing
- wrote two personal narratives
- wrote 1 fiction story
- developed ideas using
- snapshots
- thoughtshots
- flashbacks
- shrinking time
- exploding the moment
- dialogue
- figurative language
- worked on the conventions of
- paragraphing
- commas
- using quotations in dialogue
Other
- innovation day
- First Festive Friday
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