Owl Bloggers 6
By: Pengwen, Pilarcorn, and Honolulu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In writing we have been continuing westward expansion. We chose a topic to write about and created headings for it. Here are some example topics; the dangers on the oregon trail, the Native Americans during the time of westward expansion, the donner party, Lewis and Clark, and more. AFter we decided our topic and wrote down our headings (on post-its), we started drafting underneath the headings. Soon we are going to be writing the articles about our topic, like Ms.Fought said we would.
In reading we have been looking more into finding text structure and main ideas in articles. We would take an article and Ms.Greller would split it up into sections and we would have to either find what text structure that section uses, or the main idea. Also Ms.Greller really wants to put out there for us that one article won’t have just one text structure. For example when she split up an article into sections for us, one paragraph was split in ½!
In math we have just taken the test for adding and subtracting fractions. And we are now moving into our new unit of multiplying fractions. We have used models of making dots into rows according to the denominator, and then circling some of the dots according to the numerator. If you want to know more on this method, in HWS 52, the first problem gives an example of how to use that method.
