My Brother Sam is Dead really picked up due to Sam coming back home yet again. With resources and food being extremely scarce, Sam warned Tim and mother to butcher their 8 cattle so they could preserve the meat. Sam also warned of many cattle robbers who are willing to do anything for food. One night, Tim and Sam hear a noise come from the barn and discover that 4 of their cattle have been stolen. Sam heads off after the cattle robbers only to be framed as the cattle robber himself... Chapter 13 will help us discover what truly has happened here. Ask your child what they think will happen and how the cattle robbers figured out how to frame Sam. Also ask your child about what it was like to live during the winter of 1778; we had a great discussion about the depravity of living during that time of war.
In math we continued to work with area of rectangles. (A= L*W and answers to area are always in square units) I challenged some of our students to figure out how to find the area of a triangle based on what they know about rectangles and triangles. The results were encouraging! Also, we found the area of irregular shapes as well. Use this video to help with homework:
I would be willing to bet that narrative writing is the most "liked" type of writing in fifth grade, but it also is the hardest to stay focused on! In today's lesson students continued to brainstorm for their narrative essay. We also began organizing our thoughts into paragraphs so we have a plan to write from. Ask your child to orally tell you the beginning, middle and end of their narrative story that they organized today. The prompt is posted in yesterday's blog.
Finally, we wrapped up the day by reading Mini-Beasts. I chose Mini-Beasts as our reading of choice because students showed weakness in the strategy of informational text features. The focus of the lesson is to identify and comment on facts within the text, and understand why text boxes, pictures, captions, etc. are included in informational texts. Ask your child why informational texts include such features.
** Also a big thank you to Nat, Nick and Cole for helping me out with my podcast for a graduate class of mine! **
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