Our word wall words this week have lots of family words and words that have the same sounds but different spellings. Check it out
Group A: cow, now, row, low, mow, day, may, play, clay, stay
Group B: trip, tree, back, zoo, root, quick, look, looked, pack, cook
Group C: please, believe, between, leave, easy, sea, been, seen, very, next
All this week, Phys. Ed will be outside! It is always nice to get that extra fresh air. It is also important to dress appropriately, including a hat and sunscreen. Bringing a water bottle to school isn't such a bad idea as well.
Mrs. Frizzle and her class taught us a little more about baby polar bears and arctic fox today!
-new born polar bears are less then 2lbs
-new born polar bears are blind, deaf, and helpless
-female polar bears can weigh between 330 and 660lbs and male polar bears can weigh up to 1600lbs!
-arctic fox shed their fur twice a year, in the winter the have a thick, white coat of hair and in the summer they have a thin, brownish grey coat of fur
This afternoon we continued working on our addition strategies for numbers 0-9. In a couple days we will move to double digit numbers and learn some new strategies.
We also are working through daily centers to promote further growth in specific areas - increasing patterns, sorting objects, graphing, and skip counting. Maybe you can help me practice at home too!
To finish off the day we had a discussion about bats. We drew a picture of a bat in our visual journal and then wrote every thing we already know about bats around it. Why are we doing this? Because we are starting a new novel study, Silverwing. As we work through this novel we will be tying it to our next science unit on Small, Flying, and Crawling animals. Our field trip to the zoo in June will also relate.
This week at school:
-Language Arts - word wall words, sentences - periods and capitols, novel study - Silverwing
-Math - addition strategies, single and double digit
-Science - small, flying, crawling animals
-Social Studies - wrap up Nunavut unit, arctic animals
Reminders:
-music tomorrow, bring recorders
-library tomorrow, bring back books
-Hats on for Mental Health on Wednesday - wear your favorite, silliest, coolest hat to support mental health awareness
P.S. take a look at how our Inuit etchings turned out!
After drawing our symbols on the front, we colored the inside, the same side as the drawn symbols.
Then, back to front page, we traced over the pencil markings with a pen. It was important that we pressed hard, not too hard that the paper ripped though.
When that was complete, open the paper and the symbols appear on the opposite side of where we colored. How cool!
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