This week was packed with lots of fun activities in Room 227!
We have begun an integrated reading and social studies unit on the election. We are using literary concepts and themes to understand the election process. Students nominated potential candidates to the "Informational" and "Narrative" political parties. Then, we narrowed down our field of candidates through a series of caucuses and primaries. Our final two candidates are Tom Brady (from Tom Brady: Football Superstar by Matt Scheff) and Harry Potter (from the Harry Potter series). We discussed how politicians use persuasive images and words to convince people to support them. We made campaign posters to persuade classmates and people around the school to vote for our preferred candidates.
In math this week, we practiced rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. Our student teacher Ms. Stanizzi led a fun lesson where students "rounded up" balloon animals to the nearest benchmark number. We've now concluded our unit on rounding, addition, and subtraction; however, we'll continue to revisit these concepts throughout the year. Next up: multiplication!
In science, we are learning about patterns of motion. We are studying how objects move and the forces that act upon them. We made paper airplanes and drew force diagrams to describe all of the forces at work when a plane is in flight. We'll be engineering paper airplane designs to maximize the distance that they can travel.
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