Literatura
Practicing our spelling words while enjoying a snack!
Reading our story!
This week we Alexander, que era rico el domingo pasado.
Our objectives were:
- understand how the suffix -mente changes a word to mean how something is done
- review time and order words and practice using them in sentences
- understand what the subject and predicate of a sentence are
- to use comprehension strategies such as making connections, predicting, and summarizing to construct meaning from the text
- To use the comprehension skill cause and effect as we read the story a second time
Kiddos took home 2 readers for spring break but there is NO READER HOMEWORK. There is also NO SPELLING over Spring Break!
Matemáticas
Creating our fraction garden!
This week we began working with fractions!
Our objectives were:
- read, write, and identify fractions of wholes with more than 4 parts
- identify numerator and denominator
- Use models, a number line, multiplication, and division to identify and find equivalent fractions
- write fractions in simplest form
- compare and order fractions
- show fractions as points or distances on a number line
- compare and order fractions using benchmark fractions
Students took home a review packet this is NOT HOMEWORK, but should be completed for at home reinforcement. Don’t forget to do some Khan over break as well!
History & Geography
Social studies with Ms. Marci
This week we in our unit on Native Americans: Regions and Cultures we read about the Native Americans from the regions of the Southeast and Arctic/Subarctic region. The class continued to take notes and work on vocabulary. On Thursday students were assigned their tribe for this units project. They will be responsible for working on a 5 paragraph research paper about their tribe relying on notes, the internet, and books. At home they will either create a replica of their tribes dwellings or clothing. We will be sharing these on Native American Day in class, date to still be determined.
Our objectives were to:
• explain how old the Cherokee and Inuit adapted to their environment and how this environment contributed there cultural identity
• explain that NativecAmericans still live throughout North America
• locate the Southeast and Arctic/Subarctic region of North America on a map and describe some of its physical characteristics
• describe the various food sources and dwelling of the Cherokee and Inuit as related to their environment
• describe some characteristics of Cherokee and Inuit culture, including religious belief
• describe the roles and areas of authority of both men and women in Cherokee Society
• identify the Thule as the group with which the Inuit people merged
• explain why the Southeast was the most densely populated region
• explain the importance of domesticated animals in the Inuit culture
Social Studies with Ms. Laura
We talked about the Mountain Men and travel on The Oregon Trail to the Pacific Ocean. We discussed the California Gold Rush and the many people, miners and businessmen (including Levi Strauss) who went to California to make their fortunes! We talked about the Pony Express and the telegraph … even practiced deciphering words written in code! We discussed the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, and we made some track and read through a play about striking The Golden Spike. Have a wonderful vacation!
Science
Sharing a robot with the K/1 class
This week in our science domain we read about constellations and the Big Bang Theory. We did a demonstration in class about how the big Bang Theory worked using a balloon. We read, analyzed, and began to memorize the poem escape at bedtime by Robert Lewis Stevenson.
Publishing our space poems.
Our objectives were to:
• describe the characteristics of stars
• comparing contrast our sun in other stars
• describe a galaxy as a very large cluster of many stars
• identify the Milky Way as our own galaxy and Andromeda as the closest spiral galaxy in our universe
• explain what constellations are and how they are useful
• recognize important constellations in the hemisphere that we live in
• describe the universe as a vast space that extends beyond the imagination
• describe tools and methods used to study space and share information
• identify and use vocabulary important to the process of science
• explain the Big Bang Theory as an important scientific theory of the origin of the universe
English Word Work
Spelling groups got their new sorts on Monday and had a spelling test on Friday. In our journals we used the word of the week “plead” in one entry and wrote a space poem in another. For grammar this week we worked on subject and predicate.
Specialists
ART with Mrs. Kelly:
Our artistic goals for March were:
- Reviewing “Tar Beach,” the book and the quilt, by Faith Ringgold, and practicing drawing figures.
- Observing beautiful handmade quilts that Alora’s grandmother made, one with symmetrical patterns and one with an asymmetrical rainbow pattern.
- Observing, drawing, and painting real daffodil plants without pencils and erasers (illustrating Wordsworth’s famous poem)
- Learning how to use simple Origami shapes to create symmetrical (and some asymmetrical) quilt patterns.
Many thanks to Lucas’s mom Amber and Alora’s mom Stacy for cutting HUNDREDS of 3” squares for the students to use in their Origami project!
These students always work very hard and create such amazing artwork! Their neon Origami quilt designs are on the bulletin board at school.
Everyone have a wonderful spring break!