Learning How We Learn Best!

*Our class was very busy learning about how we learn in RtI Reading this week! We spent this week further exploring the Multiple Intelligences (MI) and how they relate to our learning. Using the reader's theater play, The Mystery Spot, we divided into groups based on our Multiple Intelligences and completed activities relating to the story. It was a great opportunity to practice the comprehension and summarizing of a story. Some of us drew scenes from the story, while other acted them out, and the remainder of us created a game that related to the events in the story.
We had a great
week!

Red Ribbon Week

This week we are celebrating Red Ribbon Week, which focuses on drug and violence prevention. We will have our annual assembly tomorrow morning at 8:30am, and we will continue throughout the week, and school year, to discuss the importance of living drug-free!

In math, we are continuing to work on calculating tips and sales using percents. We will have a quiz on Friday. In RtI Reading, we are also continuing to learn about how we learn best, through the use of the multiple intelligences (MI). Throughout the week, we will be completing activities using the MI and focus on finding ways that can help to strenghten our own learning.

Have a great week!

October 9th

Have you ever thought about how you learn best? About techniques/strategies that can help you succeed? In RtI reading this week, we will work to answer these questions. Through the use of True Colors and the multiple intelligences, we will learn how to strengthen and develop our own learning. In addition, we will be reading a historical fiction story, Encounter to parallel what we have been learning in our Extension in Reading books.

In math, we will begin to discuss percents and relate them to sale items at retail stores and tip/taxes. We will also be designing our own menus using what we have learned.

Enjoy your three-day weekend!

October Begins!

Our money unit is in full swing and the students are truly enjoying balancing their checkbooks and spending money on groceries and other additional expenses. They were, however, not too excited about having to pay bills this week :)
Next week, we will continue to balance our checkbooks and work with adding and subtracting decimals. There will be a quiz on Wednesday covering this. Beginning on Thursday, we will be using menus to work with decimals and will eventually design our own menu with prices starting on Friday.

In RtI Reading, we will be preparing for our Language Arts test on Wednesday by playing review Jeopardy. The remainder of the week, we will begin to read the urban legend, "The Stranger." The focus will be on vocabulary, making predictions, sequence, and plot.

I am looking forward to a great week!