Wacky Wednesday and the Global Day of Play made for a fun day last week!
We have been learning about different regions of Native Americans from around our country. Students are comparing and contrasting the shelters, food, clothing, and cultures of various geographic areas. So far, they have studied the Pacific Northwest, the Northeast Woodlands, and the Plains regions. Each child has a folder where they are taking notes on foldables for each region.
We have finished up all of the lessons in Chapter 7 for math, and have been reviewing for a test on Tuesday, February 12th. Review pages were sent home in your child's green folder on Friday. Our next chapter will focus on counting money. The children have really been enjoying the new stem bins and other games in math centers. Take a look at the boats they built!
The students are learning how to write in cursive! They are very excited to learn this new skill. We are beginning with lowercase letters and are learning a few new letters a week.
The children are almost halfway through their second drafts of informational books. Each student brainstormed a new topic and went through the steps of webbing out their facts. Some students are doing additional research in books or using Pebble Go to add more information to their writing. We have been studying published non-fiction books to see that many authors use text boxes to add special facts or definitions. The students are working to include their own "Fast Fact" boxes to their writing.
In reading, we are learning the difference between summarizing and retelling. We will be looking at different ways we can write a summary of the most important parts of a book.
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