The students are in the final stretch! This week we began our Junior Achievement classes - a 4-5 week program designed to teach students even more about the world around them! We have finished our Reader's Theatre, and we are now beginning our Poetry unit. In math, we are wrapping up our work with 2-d and 3-d Shapes and are moving onto fractions. For our last writing piece of the year, the students are writing an opinion piece on whether or not we should switch to a Year-Round-School model or not.
This week we learned about the following:
Reading and Writing:
Daily 5
Reading Groups
Poetry
Opinion Writing: Should we have year round school?