Week of January 17 and Week of January 24

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.

This week we started our study of fractions using the Model Curriculum Units from created by the Massachusetts Department of Education.  We used fraction strips, number lines, pictures, pattern blocks, etc. to show, compare, find equivalent fractions and order fractions.  In ELA, we completed poems about dancing and weather and drew pictures to visualize poems.  Also, we finished our opinion piece.  Students chose their topics for this assignment.  In science we created dichotomous keys to name animals using Google drawing and researched how scientists classify animals.  In addition,  we completed the District Writing prompt, Mid year math assessment and a reading practice MCAS assessment.
We had Black Out Bullying week.  Coburn school has a new pledge to stop bullying.  All classes signed the pledge.

Week of January 10

Welcome Back after a lengthy vacation! We reviewed division in math and started factors and multiples as we head towards a unit on fractions. In reading each group received a new book to read. Students will discuss the book in groups and write a recommendation on our wikispace. Also we looked at poems by Langston Hughes. We started our own "dreams" poems.  See below for examples.  In writing we continued an opinion writing piece. We will finish these by the middle of the month.  In science we started our study of organisms. In social studies we worked on the Great Lakes and a story about the ship the Edmund Fitzgerald. We watched a video and song by Gordon Lightfoot.  See video below.

The Way

Go on the way

For the path of dreams is far away

Go on, go on to the path

 

Go on the way

For your dreams await

Go on, go on to the path

                                --Caleb Curtis

 

 

 

 

Teach Me

 

Teach me how to

Accomplish my goals

And I’ll teach you

How to accomplish yours

Share your dreams

with me

And I’ll share

with you

                                 --Charles Christian IV