Please send snow gear with your student each day. Students need snowpants, boots, coats, gloves or mittens, and a hat or hood to play in the snow and to be able to climb on the snow pile at the end of the parking lot.
Please label snow gear - it will help us get misplaced items back to you.
Peak at our Week
Ask your child to tell you about World Read Aloud Day on February 1st.
We learned about groundhogs and why they have a special day named for them. Ask your child to tell you about his or her prediction.
We also received some special Amazon boxes this week. Ask your child to tell you what was inside.
ELA
The children were very busy in ELA this week. During our reading groups this week, we focused on the characters in our stories. How do characters change over the course of a story? How do we describe characters on the inside vs the outside? We used Venn diagrams to compare and contrast characters to each other. Students also used Venn diagrams to compare & contrast themselves to a classmate.
Science
First graders are learning about the phases of the moon. They are creating moons to bring home and share with their families.
Second graders are learning about the water that appears on our earth. Glaciers, icebergs, snow, hail, frost, and ice crystals in the clouds are solid forms of water. Rain, dew, and clouds are water droplets or liquid forms of water. Liquid water also covers three-quarters of the surface of the Earth in the form of lakes, rivers, and oceans.
Math
Our first grade level mathematicians are working on adding doubles using a concrete model such as interlocking cubes.
Our second grade level mathematicians are working on different strategies they can use to subtract such as making a subtraction sentence using a ten. This was a bit tricky but we worked on the board together and discussed that when a strategy doesn’t work for us, there are other ways to subtract and we can focus on those.
Our third grade level mathematicians continue to work on multiplication skills. We constructed arrays using grid paper to show different ways to make 24 as well as writing number sentences showing how multiplication is repeated addition.
Social Studies
Our first graders continued talking about the concepts of trade and bartering. Long ago, before people used money, they traded useful items such as food and shells in order to obtain what they needed. We practiced trading with shells once again and had so much fun trying to convince a classmate to trade with us.
Our second graders created a land form of their choice out of air dry clay. Many chose to create volcanoes. This will help us move into our next group of lessons which will have us talking about characteristics of communities created by nature and those created by humans and which may or may not be beneficial to the community.
Magna Tile fun
Designing our own Pokemon cards
Can you ever have too many Plus Plus blocks?
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