We spent the week reading "The Story of Wang Li" which contained many different proverbs. We discussed the meaning of those sayings, some of them were difficult for the students to understand, and we had some great small group discussions about them. The students will work on writing summaries and their own proverb next week as we finish up with this story.
In math, the students worked very hard in their groups. In each of the groups, they were able to play a math game to reinforce the concepts, so be sure to ask about the game they played.
We continued working on our summer adventure stories for writing. Some of the students are onto peer conferencing and editing, so we spent some time talking about how to proofread and mark mistakes, and we highlighted the punctuation and capital letters in our stories to show how often we used them.
In science, we continued with our study of evolution. We discussed how fossils are made and how scientist can tell just how old certain organisms are. The students also made their own fossils using plaster and shells or beads. Here are some great photos from the excavating of the fossils.
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