Identifying Fiction and NonFiction, Fact Families, Ideating and Designing!

IMPORTANT:


Literacy

This week we have been working on practicing identifying Fiction and NonFiction texts. How do we know if a book is fiction or nonfiction?

What clues can we look for to help us determine what kind of text we are reading? 

For reading homework please compare two books either from your home reading bag or your home library and determine fill out the accompanying graphic organizer in order to prove that you can identify Fiction Versus NonFiction text:

Math

Fact Families

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tw_G6JYa48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK3FKEZJKec

We have been practicing creating double digit fact families and using the relationship between addition and subtraction in order to check our work.

You can practice fact families at :

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families

Ideating and Designing a PROTOTYPE!

This week we have been Ideating. This is when after thinking about the problem and empathizing, you and your group now come up with as many ideas as possible to solve a problem. No idea is too crazy and the more ideas you can generate with your group the better. 

After coming up with as many ideas as possible we read the story The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind to think about creating something out of odds and ends to solve a problem:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/feb/25/chiwetel-ejiofor-boy-who-harnessed-wind-interview-bryan-mealer

We were then given a little more time to reflect and add any new ideas or inspiration we may have had to our groups original ideating. 

Yesterday we began building our Prototype.

We will finish building this prototype next week and will upload our designs to IRIS so that we can share our ideas and building with you!