Our Magic House Field Trip is on Friday, December 15th. We will be returning to school after our normal lunch time, so students will either need to bring their lunch to school or order a sack lunch from the cafeteria that day.
Class Updates:
Take a look at some of the winter artwork students have created with Mrs. Heller!
We have finished up our lessons on from Chapter 4 in math. The students learned how to check their subtraction work by adding and have been learning strategies to solve one and two-step word problems with subtraction. We will spend the beginning of the week reviewing and will have a test on Wednesday. Review pages will come home with the students to help them prepare.
The class will be wrapping up our study of non-fiction books in reading this week by focusing on sequence of events and the author's purpose. Our latest Scholastic News taught students about the Wampanoag Native Americans and their interactions with the Pilgrims. The children practiced using headings and bold words to help search for text evidence to questions about the article. We will be learning more about Native Americans in social studies third quarter!
Students will finish their second round of opinion letters in writing this week and then pick one draft to publish. They are working hard to elaborate with more examples and details, as well as retell parts of the story to help paint a picture in the reader's mind.
We have started a large unit on matter in science. In the first part of the unit, students learned that matter can have different properties, including size, shape, color, and weight. They participated in a Mystery Science activity that taught about the properties of materials that can be used to make clothing. Then, a challenge was provided for students to pretend they were stranded on a desert island. They needed to design a hat that could protect them from the sun. The children first tested materials to determine which had the properties that would make for a good hat, such as high absorbency. Then, students worked to design their hats. You can see they were very creative!
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