2/3 News Week 23

Spanish Language Arts

 

This week we read Picasso. Our objectives were:

 

• students will familiarize themselves with the spelling words for this lesson
• students will gain an understanding of the digraph ch and how the ch sound is not separated when sounded out
• to use comprehension strategies such as asking questions and summarizing to construct meaning from the story

Math

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week we began our metric length unit. Our objectives were:

• Use kilometer and meter as units of measurement of length
• estimate and measure length
• convert units of measurement
• use meters and centimeters as units of measurement of length

History & Geography

Social studies with Ms. Marci
Social studies with Ms. Marci.
This week we in our unit on the Viking Age the class retold events from the previous lesson using sequence words such as first, next, then etc.  We found Iceland on the map and discussed the reasons why our characters were relocating to this land. We are breaking up into two groups to work on our Viking play scripts and puppets for our puppet show plays coming up soon.

Our objectives were to:
• explain how and why the Vikings travel to other countries
• explain the the Viking people were shipped many gods and goddesses
• explain that the Viking people built and used ships for different purposes
• identify and express the mental states and emotions of the characters in our lesson

Social Studies with Ms. Laura

GREEK DAY!  We finished our long unit on Ancient Greece!  We dressed as our favorite Greek god or goddess, traded our homemade goods at our agora (marketplace), and enjoyed a celebration with ambrosia, nectar, olives, figs and popcorn with olive oil.  We reviewed and had our assessment for the unit.  For our next unit, Making The Constitution, we will travel across the Atlantic Ocean to America and advance 2000 years and appreciate Athens gift to the world:  democracy!  We talk about how winning the Revolutionary War did not solve all of the problems facing a young America.

 

Science

This week we introduced are new science domain: Astronomy, Our Solar System and Beyond.  We learned that astronomy means the study of the stars and all objects in space, which are referred to as celestial bodies. We talked about how astronomers are scientist who study all of the objects in  our space and that most of what we know about outer space we have learned from the observation, measurements, and thinking of astronomers. The class began to generate a KWL chart that we will reference and add to throughout this domain.

Our objectives were to:
• review what we know about astronomy
• contribute to a KWL chart for this domain