November By: Kathryn

Language Arts- We’re working on entries for our book that we are in the process of writing. Each page is based off a different prompt. So far these are the prompts we’ve gotten to:
1. If I could go anywhere in the world, I would go…..
2. If I could meet anyone, (dead or alive) I would meet…..
3. My favorite school memory is….
I really like the approach we are taking on this writing piece. The actual name of the piece is “My Book.” Other than writing our books, we are still learning more about reading strategies, then using them as we read independently. After we get time to read our choice of book, we get to write in our reading response journals. In the response journals, each page is a different “topic” that kind of goes with the reading strategy we learned that day.

Science- Yesterday we stated a new unit. We just finished up our ecology unit. I got a 97% on the test! :) Our new unit is about matter and energy. We brainstormed ideas of things we would like to do in this new unit. We also took notes on mass, weight and volume.

Math- Things are going really well in math class with Mrs. O’Hern. Right now we are focusing on multiplying, adding, subtracting and dividing fractions. I’m really proud of myself. I have been working hard and it’s really paying off. Soon we’ll take our test, I hope I’ll do good! :)

S.S- We just finished up learning about Mesopotamia and have moved onto Ancient Egypt. We just finished making maps of a city in ancient India, Mohenjo- Daro. Making the maps really helped us learn what and where things were in Mohenjo- Daro. And they were pretty fun to create. :) We also finished our unit on Mesopotamia. We wrote essays about the similarities and differences of the Indus, Tigris, and Nile rivers.