This week we worked in stations to prepare for the nine week benchmark test in math. My station reviewed addition, subtraction, and solving for a missing number using word problems. Students played a game called, "Spring into Addition and Subtraction." To play, students solved the word problems carefully in their math journals and as they completed a question they could bounce from one spring to the next on the game board with the goal being to make it as far as they could in the time they had at the station. Here is a look at the game board and sample questions!
Non-Fiction Text Features Book Page Project
We also continued to work on our pages for the Famous American books we are creating. Students completed their research throughout last week and this week during their computer time so that today we could work on page layout and design. Students experimented with the placement of their non-fiction text features and paragraphs, glued their pieces, and are now ready to add the text to the page! We hope to finish them over the next few school days and even add a moving part!