Science: We have been learning about animals in winter.
We learned about why bears hibernate, made sleeping bears and played a game to fill our bear's bellies before hibernating.
Math was incorporated by measuring the heights of different penguins and comparing them:
This week we will learn how polar animals keep warm in the cold.
Math: Geometry
Learning to define shapes by their attributes:
Sorting shapes by attributes:
Writing: we have kicked off a new unit on opinion writing. We are learning how to state an opinion, support it with reasons and write a concluding sentence.
Some of our mentor texts:
We started by choosing our favorite from a collection of beach-combing items:
Here are our steps so far:
Each child filled out a planning sheet with the reasons why they chose a particular item. We are using these to write our first opinion pieces. Examples to come in the next few weeks.
Word Study/Spelling:
Now we are learning the last two lines of welded/glued sounds:
Trick words:
why, by, my, try, were, here, there, are, who, what, when, where, from, have, do, does, one, said, I, they, was, or, for, we, he, she, be, me, the, and, is, his, of, as, has, to, into, you, your
Next week we will add: some, come
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Click here for a video made by Scholastic that accompanied out magazine this week
Learning about Australia
Our classmate will be traveling to Australia to spend precious time with family next month. We will have lots of books about Australia in our room and look forward to learning more about Australia when she returns. Safe travels!!
