We used Margie Palatini's picture book, The Web Files, with it's references to the old detective show, Drag Net, to talk about fact and opinion. Duckdective Web and his partner try to quack the case of the pilfered peck of perfect purple almost-pickled peppers. Nursery rhyme characters are the usual suspects. The humour of the story allowed us to discuss many different aspects and then create a working definition of 'the facts'. We sorted facts and opinions about mice into our novel study journal.
We are wrapping up our unit on fractions with a listening exercise and some story problems to solve. On to Shape and Space next.
We are testing arches and squares in science to see which will hold more mass. Today we were busy making a hypothesis, testing and evaluating.
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