Our first week back from the holidays has been a cold one! It has been too cold for recess, so we have been inside a lot! We have used some of our recess time building with K’Nex. We had tons of fun making K’nex machine models and learning about the simple machines we use in everyday life like egg beaters, elevators and bicycles. Then Ms.Blair decided that we should all build seesaws out of K’nex materials to learn about 1st class levers, which was even more fun than making stuff with the instructions. We looked at Ethan’s and Roman’s creation and they helped everyone else build theirs.
Can you spot the possessive pronoun in that last sentence? We have been learning about possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns. Here is a sentence with a possessive adjective: Is this your seesaw? In this sentence, the word “your” is a possessive adjective. Here is a sentence with a possessive pronoun: The K’Nex creation is theirs. In this sentence, the possessive pronoun is the word “theirs”. Revision is an important step in writing. To practice revision, we started by writing sentences about our preference for breakfast or lunch. When we put all our sentences together, we realized we really needed to revise our writing if we wanted it to be clear. We used cut and paste in Google Docs to move sentences so that all the “breakfast sentences” were together and all the “lunch sentences” were together. Next week, we will organize the sentences in each section. We have been working on multiplication and different arrays to represent multiplication. We learned a new game that uses arrays but to do that we had to learn some multiplication. We have learned that you can use doubling to find multiplication facts you do not know. For example, you can double the product of two groups of four (8) to get the product of four groups of four (16). Similarly, you can double the product of four groups of four (16) to get the product of eight groups of four (32). In french we are learning colours. Did you know that, in French, the color orange is spelled the same as the fruit?
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