Announcements!
1. Be sure you check the school calendar this month. We have a few days off here and there. January 16th, January 19th, January 23rd are all days that the kids do not come to school!
2. Work on those acrostic poems for Valentine's Day! If you need any help, please let me know.
3. January 27th: Our first big field trip! We are going to the children's theatre in Charlotte like last year. More info regarding chaperones will be sent out soon.
4. First play February 18th Heroes Play!! Our very first play of the year!! Play lines will hopefully be assigned this Monday! With my big move this weekend, it may be a little delayed. But I will do my best to get those out so you can start practicing.
Thematic Unit:
This week we hit the ground running. We started our new unit "American Heroes" and started with Martin Luther King. He was a great man! He fought for the equality of all people, no matter their race. We learned about diversity and how we are all equal. We also listened to a part of his long famous 'I have a Dream' speech. We rotated through 4 centers....
1. An egg experiment. Take a brown egg and a white egg and predict what they will look like on the inside. They look the same! Just like people look on the inside even if they have different skin colors.
2. Make two clouds. On one cloud write your dream and on the other cloud write Martin Luther's dream. Staple together and stuff with tissues so that it becomes a 3D cloud.
3. Martin Luther King mini book
4. Martin Luther writing sample: Write your dream on green line paper and glue on a piece of paper that has been stamped with two different skin colors of hands that are joining together.
Literacy:
This week in addition to our individual reading and writing goals, we learned how to summarize. This is hard work! First we started by summarizing different parts of one of our favorite upcoming play songs. Then we learned a "thinking stem" that can help us summarize. 'This book is about....' Then we tried summarizing our own writing books. This was neat but we definitely need more practice. You can summarize many things like poems, movies, books and songs. We are also working on acrostic poems. Hopefully practicing at school will help valentine writing go smoothly! We learned about adjectives and how they describe things. Adjectives are most definitely needed for acrostic poems.
Word study words this week: play, say, are, jump, make
Math:
We are still studying subtraction and all the strategies we can use to solve problems. We just started working on solving subtraction word problems. Just like our addition story problems, you must weed through the "fluff" to figure out what you need out of the story to solve the problem. We also added another piece to our game from before break called 'Roll and Record.' This time when you roll your dice and you subtract, you have to add your equation to the column where you record your answer. Then you get to see all the different combinations. We also played another game called 'True or False.' There were different subtraction problems listed and you had to determine if the equation was true or false. Example: 9-1=5 would be false. 8-2=6 would be true.
Happy weekend!
Emily Schultz
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