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Literacy

Treasures: 

This week, the children worked with short /e/ words. They read stories about growing grain and working together to cook. After reading, the children would summarize the story. They learned that when you summarize you retell the most important parts of the story. Summarizing helps you to better understand and remember the story.

Grammar Packets:

The children were introduced to plural nouns this week. They learned that a plural noun names more than one person,

place, or thing. The children learned that you add -es to form the plural of nouns that end with s, ss, sh, ch, or x. They also continued to work on proofreading sentences, checking for capitals at the beginning and a special end mark (period, question mark, or exclamation mark). 

Math 

In Math, the children worked with telling time to the hour and half hour on their tool kit clocks. They also took turns telling and recording a variety of different times. This week, the children were also introduced to frames and arrows. They had to fill in the missing numbers based on a given rule. Later in the week, they had to identify the rule based on the numbers in the frames. The children also had a chance to create their own frames and arrows problems, they traded with a partner and completed the others problems by identifying the rule and filling in the missing numbers.  

Election

On Monday, the children listened to the story, I Can Be President, Too! They had a great discussion about what they would do if they were President. After, each child wrote about what they would do if they were President. They drew a picture of what they would look like as President to go along with their writing. 

Science

The scientists completed two science lessons this week. On Wednesday, the scientists observed, compared, and dissected flowers. They learned about flower parts and created their own flower diagram. 

On Thursday, the scientists were introduced to living things that are neither plants nor animals, but members of a third living kingdom called fungi. They viewed photos and video clips showcasing fungi and mold. 

Get Buggy Field Trip

On Friday, a scientist from High Touch High Tech came into our classroom and taught us all about bugs. We learned about the creepy, crawly, weird, wacky, incredible life of insects and arachnids. The children learned about the life cycle of butterflies, bees and beetles. They got to see through the eyes of bugs, make their very own insect habitat, and were excited when they got to touch real bugs!

Social Studies

This week, the children learned all about the Pilgrims. They listened to several stories and worked together to add to our Then and Now Venn diagram. The children also completed a graphic organizer listing details about the Pilgrims homes, clothing, games, and food. They will use this to complete a final project at the end of next week. On Thursday, they created a Pilgrim project using a photo of their face. They wrote a sentence about something they have or can do but the Pilgrims did not have or could not do. Next week, we will learn about the Wampanoag Indians. 

Art Appreciation

On Friday, Mrs. Bartels came in and led the children in an Art Appreciation activity. The children learned about the painting, “Peaceable Kingdom,” by Edward Hicks. After discussing the painting the children acted out a peaceful Thanksgiving meal. Thank you, Mrs. Bartels for coming in and sharing the presentation with the class! 

Happy Birthday

On Monday we celebrated Samir’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Samir!

Star Student

Rachel was our star student this week. Thanks Rachel for sharing all about you!

Royal Reader

A special thank you to Rachel’s Dad, he joined us this week as our Royal Reader. The children loved listening to the two stories that Mr. Rabe read, The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child. 

Have a great rest of the weekend!