We had an amazing week last week as we dove into our first math unit and our first unit of inquiry. I was so encouraged by the enthusiasm and depth of our conversations. We started the week by looking at our end goal for our unit of inquiry. Students participated in a gallery walk of primary sources related to the attacks of 9/11. As a final task for this unit, students will be asked to serve as an adviser to President Bush. The question being, "Given the attacks, how should the United States react? What advice would you give the President?" Based on this task, students began using questioning skills to develop inquiry questions related to the topic. We generated an impressive list of questions! This week, we will continue our unit of inquiry on conflict. Novels should be arriving this week. As soon as they do, we will dive into our first novel study. We will also begin to develop our research skills so we can start finding out more about the historical conflicts that will guide our decisions on how to advise the president. We also visited the media center for a book tasting hosted by Mrs. Crosby and Mrs. Hogan. Students were able to sample various excerpts of text. Based on their selections, Mrs. Crosby provided the students with book recommendations. Book choice is critical to student engagement with reading. This year, we would like to see students read entire books, rather than starting many texts, but abandoning them. Hopefully, the book tasting was a great way to set students up for success in book selection this year. In math, we began our study of place value. Students worked on gaining a deeper understanding of the place value system and why we are a system in base ten. We also began to explore the relationship between our base ten pattern and exponents. (powers of ten) We will continue to look at powers of ten and place value this week. We will also introduce order of operations. REMINDERS:
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