Our Week in Review

During our weekly literacy assessment, students learned about Marian Anderson. Since they were reading about Marian Anderson, I shared with them her singing "My Country Tis of Thee" at Lincoln Memorial. 

Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial 1939

Another view of Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial

Math:
This week in math we worked on fractions. Please see Wednesday's post to review finding parts of a fraction.

Spelling:
This week in spelling we did contractions examples: don't, won't, it'll.

Reading:
This week in reading we read The Case of The Gasping Garbage. We also did comparing and contrasting using "T" charts and Venn Diagrams.

In small groups:

• the students that read What in the World Was That? used their Venn Diagram as a writing organizers to incorporate writing into comparing and contrasting.
• the students that read Mysterious Monsters got to watch the Chupacabra