Math: We took a comprehensive formative assessment just to make sure we've effectively covered perimeter, area, and measurement so far...These concepts will be on the quiz Friday and the Unit Assessment next week. I haven't finished looking over them yet but we will spend the bulk of class tomorrow clarifying concepts and spending some additional time where we need it the most. It will come home tomorrow.

Language Arts: We continued working on summaries as a whole group - specifically, how can you use text features like titles and chapter titles/headings to determine what the author is trying to communicate to the audience?

In the Deep - We reviewed the individual feedback on their summaries and a cause and effect organizer. In addition, they worked on applying their knowledge of the ocean depths by creating a new sea creature that has the adaptations necessary for the dark zone...different, but certainly a fun challenge!

Babe - We reread chapter 10 aloud and identified details from the chapter that were essential to the main idea. Following a group discussion, I conferenced with each student about their own summaries and clarified/explained what they did well on and how they could improve. They also read chapters 11+12 on their own.

The Family Tree - We identified a number of events from the story, distinguished the important from the interesting, and placed them in chronological order. Using this information they began work on a storyboard that depicts the four, main events along with a caption for each.

Homework: Babe and In the Deep groups are to share their summary feedback with an adult. These are located in the Language Arts section of their binders.