Lesson 16

Author's Purpose

We will be learning about author's purpose in this lesson. Feel free to play the following games to practice.

Author's Purpose Game 1

Author's Purpose Game 2

Author's Purpose Song
In class we will focus on persuade, inform and entertain as author's purposes. There are a few others mentioned in the song.

Building Background

We will be reading a story about recycling. The videos below will help us get a better grasp on the topic.

Fake Text The BFG By Ryan

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Fake Text: The BFG by Camry

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Leprechaun Trap Extra Credit Homework By: Ryan and Camden

Comparing fractions

Marigolds

After learning about soil we got to plant marigolds!

Agriculture PALS

We are learning about the types of soil. Comment and tell about the three types is soil.

Madeline's Piclit

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Grace's Piclit

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Jillian's Writing Piclit

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Fayth's Piclit

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Mit Crew's pin on Pinterest.

Find the Phrase

Data

We are planning and collecting data.

Estimation and measurement

We read, Jack and the Beanstalk, and made our own beanstalks. We estimated the measurements and then measured today.

Plotting our data

We are plotting our data on a horizontal line plot.

Measurement

We are measuring our leaves in inches and centimeters and plotting this data on line plots. We will compare our findings next.

Picture of the day

We are coming up with topics for our graphing activity. We will collect data tomorrow.