Class Update 10/12/18

The students had a wonderful field trip to the Magic House! Each child was able to spend time performing a job, earning a paycheck, and spending their paycheck in the village. Students also worked in groups to plan a family budget. This field trip was an excellent preview of one of our upcoming social studies units on economics. Thank you so much to all of the parent volunteers who helped chaperone!

We have wrapped up Chapter 2 in math.  We will begin Chapter 5 next, which covers place value of numbers up to 1,000. Next week we will cover lessons 1-3.

In reading, students have been learning to ask questions about their books. We read one of my favorite stories, Mr. Peabody's Apples, to learn this strategy. The students have practiced asking before, during, and after reading questions about their independent and guided reading texts. 

The children are busy publishing their final drafts of their personal narrative stories. Next week they will finish publishing, and students will have a chance to share and celebrate their work with each other.

Another one of our Flat Stanley's has returned. This time Stanley was able to stay in the Lake of the Ozarks. He even was able to spend time working at Tan-Tar-A Resort. Stanley also had a hot dog cookout.

In social studies, we continued our maps and geography unit by learning about various landforms and bodies of water. The children played a landforms partner game and learned that different symbols can stand for landforms on a map. Students also compared and contrasted physical and political maps. Each child colored and labeled maps of the continents and oceans of the world. Next week, we will begin a final project to bring our geography unit to a close.