Math
The past few weeks we have practiced understanding multiplication and division concepts. We discovered ways to solve such problems and used manipulatives to prove our answers. Our class will now begin practicing specific numbers and learn how to use a multiplication table to guide them and learn patterns within multiplication. We will be working on our fluency within these operations for awhile.
Reading & Writing
In Literacy, we have read fiction stories helping us learn to sequence, compare and contrast, find an
author’s purpose, and also to identify characters, settings, and themes. We have also practiced reading text
with various spelling patterns and have worked on writing five kinds of complete sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, and compound).
For Thanksgiving, we will be putting on a performance reader's theater to tell the story of a turkey who wants turkey to be banned from the holiday.
Another literary component to our day has been in the form of Literacy 4, where students have the opportunity to be independent with their learning. Students have the choice of reading by themselves, reading to someone else, working with words, or free writing about various topics. The students do a great job staying focused on an independent task for 10-15 minutes at a time. This is a valuable trait as they acquire more independent work to do at home.
Social Studies
Our focus in Social Studies this year is on communities and how they differ in size, location, culture, and history. We are currently working on culture projects where students design their own project on a country to tell about its culture. Before that we did our famous pumpkin campaigns. Cool Man Pumpkin and Boby the Pumpkin won the race and were carved for everyone to see. Hopefully students learned the campaign process and the importance of being a good citizen and voting.
Science
Mrs. Abels has started the year in Science teaching our students about living things and their classification systems. She has focused on the structures of plants. Now she is working on classifications of animals. The students are also creating their own animal and trying to classify them.
The past few weeks we have practiced understanding multiplication and division concepts. We discovered ways to solve such problems and used manipulatives to prove our answers. Our class will now begin practicing specific numbers and learn how to use a multiplication table to guide them and learn patterns within multiplication. We will be working on our fluency within these operations for awhile.
Reading & Writing
In Literacy, we have read fiction stories helping us learn to sequence, compare and contrast, find an
author’s purpose, and also to identify characters, settings, and themes. We have also practiced reading text
with various spelling patterns and have worked on writing five kinds of complete sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, and compound).
For Thanksgiving, we will be putting on a performance reader's theater to tell the story of a turkey who wants turkey to be banned from the holiday.
Another literary component to our day has been in the form of Literacy 4, where students have the opportunity to be independent with their learning. Students have the choice of reading by themselves, reading to someone else, working with words, or free writing about various topics. The students do a great job staying focused on an independent task for 10-15 minutes at a time. This is a valuable trait as they acquire more independent work to do at home.
Social Studies
Our focus in Social Studies this year is on communities and how they differ in size, location, culture, and history. We are currently working on culture projects where students design their own project on a country to tell about its culture. Before that we did our famous pumpkin campaigns. Cool Man Pumpkin and Boby the Pumpkin won the race and were carved for everyone to see. Hopefully students learned the campaign process and the importance of being a good citizen and voting.
Science
Mrs. Abels has started the year in Science teaching our students about living things and their classification systems. She has focused on the structures of plants. Now she is working on classifications of animals. The students are also creating their own animal and trying to classify them.