-Laurel's Field Trip: Tuesday January 20th...sign up if you can help!
- We are in desperate need of Clorox wipes. Send in pack if you are able.
- Children's Theatre Play: January 27th
- American Hero Play: February 19th at 11:00 ***Last week I accidentally wrote that it was the 18th. I was off by a day! So sorry!! It is actually Thursday the 19th. Hope you can be here to see your child preform in the first play of the year! Play lines will DEFINITELY go home Friday! We have a teacher work day, so I will be sure to get those done first. :)
Thematic Unit:
This week we studied Neil Armstrong. He was the first man on the moon! We discussed how this made a huge impact on the world forever. We also discussed characteristics that make a good hero. Everyone has the opportunity to be a hero! We rotated through 4 centers this week but we will also continue them next week as well since we got a little behind. We will not start a new hero next week due to our 3 day work week.
1. Astronaut helmet made of a paper bag. We also discussed oxygen and gravity on the moon versus the earth while we made our helmets.
2. Phases of the moon book. Did you know there are 8 phases? Watch the moon at night to see how it changes!
3. Shaving cream earth or moon painting. You could pick between painting the moon or the earth using the shaving cream paint. By adding shaving cream to the paint, it made the planet become 3d. After you painted, you had to add a sentence relating the moon to the earth.
4. Oreo moon phases. Take an oreo and gently break it apart. Scrape the icing off for each phase of the moon and discuss how it changes. Eat the oreo at the end!
We look forward to making moon sand next week and learning a little more about Neil!
Reader's Workshop:
This week we focussed on comprehension. We learned 3 main things about comprehension and tried to do a better job of understanding our books while we read.
1. When readers really understand, their reading voices sound smooth.
2. When readers really understand, they can picture what's going on.
3. When readers really understand, they can retell their stories easily.
We also edited more of our writing books this week as well. This month we are studying opinion pieces and how to write our opinion on a topic. Thinking of an opinion to write about is surprisingly hard! We discussed the difference about fact and opinion and looked a little deeper at Martin Luther King's opinion speech called 'I Have a Dream.'
Word Study words this week are:
must
was
has
have
had
Hopefully the last week of January we will start getting 10 words each week! With all the days of school we are missing, we are wanting to wait until we have a full week to start this.
Please lookout for a letter coming home soon about starting Bare Books. Remember last year how we worked for months on a book that your child wrote all on his/her own? We are doing that again this year, but it will be a little different. It will involve more time and supplies from home. This letter will be sent via email in the next week or so, so that we have plenty of time to finish. We will still work a lot at school on these books as well. No panicking. ;)
Math Workshop:
We are still studying subtraction this week and reviewing all the strategies we have learned so far. We are having a difficult time wrapping our minds around this topic, so we are taking our time learning it. We worked all week (to get through the entire class) on the true or false subtraction sheet. Last week we played a game with this and this week, we put it on paper to see what we learned. This took forever because it was a multi step process. First you had to solve the equation, then you had to decide if it was true or false, then you had to write the equation in the right column and then you had to check your work! We also worked on subtraction story problems as a class and in small groups. We increased the numbers we were working with from last week to make it a little more challenging.
Have a great week and weekend!
Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz
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