We are starting our last unit in Lead21 this week titled New Ideas. We will investigate the theme question: How can new ideas change our lives and the world around us? Throughout the unit we will look at famous inventors, inventions, and solutions. This week we will focus on the skills of questioning, categorizing and classifying, and adjective and adverb suffixes. For our inquiry projects this unit the kids will be making their own weebly website as their inquiry presentation. We will have time to work in class, but I will also send their logins and passwords home in Tuesday folders in case they want to work on them at home as well.
In math we are using rulers to measure to the nearest inch, 1/2 inch, and 1/4 inch. We will also revisit bar graphs and pictographs.
In writing we will finish up our poetry unit and start a short story with dialogue.