Lessons Learned Sep 27 - Oct 1

Reading:

In Reading this week we were working with the story By the Shores of Silver Lakes by Laura Ingalls Wilder. We completed different reading activities within our centers that helped with the strategy focus of questioning, as well as continued practice on text features and organization.

On Thursday we celebrated "Real Men Read," and had a guest reader, Mr. Denson, read to our class.

Social Studies:

In Social Studies this week we continued studying the geography of Florida. We finished working in chapter one lesson one and completed the accompanying workbook pages. We also, reviewed our map skills studied in previous weeks.

Writing:

In Writing this week we continued working with narrative stories.

Every student is going to recieve the opportunity to publish their own book. The students will work through the process of writing a book, visiting all stages of writing: planning, writing, reviewing/editing, re-writing, re-editting, final drafting, and illustrating their stories. The books the students are writing can be on any topic and in any format. We began planning for the book writing this week. The students created writing folders with pages similar to that of the final draft. Each student recieved a planning page and began working with their story.

Math:

In Math we have been working on perfecting our multiplication facts. We have been discussing the different properties of multiplication: distributive property of multiplication, identity property of multiplication, commutative property of multiplication, and zero property of multiplication.

Zero Property of Multiplication: the product of any number and zero is zero.  Example: 2 x 0 = 0

Commutative Property of Multiplication: [Also known as order property] two numbers can be multiplied in any order and the product will be the same. Example: 2 x 3 = 6  and 3 x 2 = 6.

Identity Property of Multiplication: [ Also known as property of one] the product of any number and one is that number.

Example: 1 x 7 = 7,  1 x 3 = 3, 1 x 6 = 6

Distributive Property of Multiplication: [Also known as grouping property] breaking apart facts into simpler problems to find the product.
Example: 4 x 6 = (4x 3) + (4 x 3) = 24 ; You break apart the 6 into smaller numbers (3 + 3) to make the multiplication easier.