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Happy Thursday!

We continued to work on our tree map that dealt with details from Zita the Space Girl for our Brainstart this morning:

Pulling details from the text!

We then jumped into our a Word Study mini-lesson; we discussed the phoneme /aw/, and how it has many common graphemes (spellings) such as aw, au, all, etc. We then focused on the grapheme, aw, and generated a list of words that contained this grapheme in our collaborative groups!

During or ELA block, we went over the desert biome HW, and dissected the passage for details. We then used this information to make mini-posters that contained these details. The poster can be considered a thinking map of sorts (e.g. bubble map), but with visuals for those visual learners! We were explicitly told how to pull information from our resources to label, with detail, parts/aspect of the poster!

Great work so far...

Going to add a bit more detail and explanation in the labeling!

During math, today we went over the concept of finding the perimeter of shapes with missing sides. We discussed the "sliding" technique, which is strategy we could use to help us locate the missing measurements of sides. We also talked about labeling sides with letters that has a unknown measurement, for efficiency sake.

At lunch today, a  handful of us wanted to know more about the Pokemon Trading Card Game!

Click for an online tutorial!

During Writer's Workshop, those who had, already in mind, a true story to write about, began to do so immediately, and those who had no idea what to write about, stayed on the carpet in order to get a refresher course on strategies that help in coming up with small moments!

Near the end of the day, we continued to work on our desert biome posters, making sure to appropriately label (with detail) animal, plants, climate of that biome. We were also given additional resources to use as we wanted. If we wanted to add something from these new resources onto our poster, we made sure we could find an explanation/detail for it when labeling!

And that's Thursday for you folks! Cheers!