Literacy, Paragraph Writing, Number Lines, and Sketching!

Literacy

This week we have been Thinking about what we read. We have explored using THINK MARKS when we read in order to capture our thinking. 

Think Marks can be in pencil, highlighter and even on sticky notes. When we have a thought about what we are reading we can stop and make a think mark in order to help us better understand and engage with what we are reading. 

This week student's began by reading nonfiction text about water. We read with our partners and then re-read making think marks as we read. We then used these think marks to help us to summarize the main idea of the article:

By making Think Marks it is easier to summarize the main idea and give details or examples from the article or book that we are reading. 

Parent Pipeline:

Writing

This week we are working on using all of the descriptive pumpkin sentence starters we created last week and putting them together in order to create a detailed paragraph of writing. 

What is a paragraph?

We began a rough copy and will continue this writing tomorrow. We are trying to make our writing as interesting as possible and HOOK our audience or reader into wanting to read more! 

When our rough copies are done we will be self-editing and peer-editing as well as editing with a teacher, in order to create a finished, polished piece of writing. 

Math

Number Lines

Today we started learning about number lines. We looked at the open number line as a strategy for building single and double-digit numbers. 

We also practiced skip counting on an open number line. 

Hop=10
Skip=5
Jump=Extras

We had to make up numbers and act out the hops, skips and jumps of a secret number and our partner then had to guess what our number was using 10's, 5's and extras to help them count. 

We practiced showing double digit numbers on an open number line by doing our hops (10s), skips (5s) and jumps (1s ) to get to our number. 

Here are a few links where you can practice skip counting at home:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/skip-counting-game.html

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fill-missing.php?g=5s50&name=Skip%20Counting%20by%205s%20to%2050

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fill-missing.php?g=10s100&name=Skip%20Counting%20by%2010s%20to%20100

Sketching

Yesterday we practiced sketching a pumpkin by watching a step-by-step video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UfEbgGmmM

Today we added shading for depth and to create shadow and light in realistic ways. 

Next week we will do this again but instead of a video we will use a real pumpkin (the same one that inspired our pumpkin writing) and we will explore using different graphite pencils like B, 2B and 6B to help us add light, medium and dark shading to these sketches.