Science Homework Tonight

Some of us have science home work to wrap up a piece of writing.  Please have this finished tonight and sent back tomorrow as we need our science notebooks for our crystal experiment.

I think my rock is ____________ because ________________.

1 thing I learned about rocks and minerals is ______________.

1 question I still have is ______________________________.

We began comparing fiction to non-fiction with a tale from India called Pattan's Pumpkin and our social studies textbooks.  We noticed features of the textbook like the maps, photographs, the chapters and the glossary while the fiction book did not have any of these elements.  Some of us prefer to read fiction while some of us love our non-fiction.

We are able to add bigger numbers using the strategies of breaking apart the tens and ones and now we can all use a number line.  It is important for students to be aware there is more than one way to work with numbers and provide them the tool belts to work affectively.