Using Mentor Texts to Create Powerful Introductions

Today we researched mentor texts and specifically looked at the introductions these authors wrote. We read the introductions with an extra powerful lens to notice how they were written. We then discussed what kinds of things the authors did to create their powerful introductions. We learned many new ways to write engaging introductions for our informational books and chapters as well!

Lucky Charms Fractions and Graphing

In honor of St.Patrick's Day, we used Lucky Charms to sort out the marshmallows and make fractions and a bar graph out of them. The denominator was the total amount of marshmallows each student had and the numerator was the number of each different marshmallows they had. We then compared our graphs.