Posted by kavery508 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on May 14, 2018
Happy Mother’s Day! I hope your weekend was full of all the good things you deserve! Your care is evident in the way your kids come to school each day: well-loved, confident, and valued. Thanks for all you do.
Students will be taking their blogging to the next level by engaging in discourse around the environmental impact of plastics. They are learning to agree and disagree respectfully, and to pose questions to each other to stimulate discussion. Wow! Here are some opinions on plastic problems from 1) Rudra 2) Miya and 3) Seth: 1) Plastics can kill animals just by eating it. Plus, sea animals might get stuck in it. 2) When plastic doesn’t get reused or recycled it’s taken to a dump and just sits there. It takes up landfills and destroys the planet. 3) Plastic is very useful but it can be bad for the planet. We are ripping oil out of the ground and that’s bad for the planet.
Our CAFE focus this week is on Compare and Contrast. When students think critically about similarities and differences in one text and between 2 or more texts, it deepens their understanding. When reading at home with your child, begin pointing out what’s the same or different between characters or settings. You can model this by thinking aloud: “I notice _____ is like/different from _____ because…” After reading texts, try asking, “How were these stories similar/different? Compare the characters/plot. What else does this make you think of?”
This week we wrap up our learning on data and graphing by examining line plots and bar graphs. What’s important for kids to know at the end is that information can be shown visually in a variety of ways; that a “key” holds important information for interpreting graphs; and that there is a difference between reading a graph (just saying what you literally see) and interpreting them (telling what the tallies, bars, numbers, and words mean); and that graphs can be used to solve real world problems. This page from the student book illustrates these points well:
