Reading
Our story for the week is Around the Pond: Who's Been Here? This is a story about two children, Cammy and William who go for a walk around the pond in search of blueberries to bring home to their mother who has promised to make a pie. On their walk the children see animal footprints, numerous animals, shells and even a beaver dam. The illustrations are beautiful! The children will love this story.
The comprehension strategy of monitoring and clarifying will be stressed.
The comprehension skills to be learned are categorizing and classifying.
The phonics skills will be double consonants as in the words class, dress, puppet, and yellow. We will also work on the vowel pattern of VCV as in the words pilot, finish, and closet.
Our vocabulary words are: bank, edge, path, crater, moss, and shallow.
Our grammar lessons will work on when to use an exclamation point.
MathThe Chapter 6 test went home in their folder on Thursday. In Chapter 7 we will be exploring 2-digit subtraction. We will use base-ten blocks to demonstrate and learn regrouping for subtraction.
Assembly
The children will attend an assemble on Wednesday entitled Kids on the Block. In this assembly they will learn about the various handicaps some children have to deal with each day. This is an excellent program that uses puppets to teach the children about a very special issue.
Science
We have been learning about earthworms in science. The children have observed worms on their desks. They can locate the saddle, segments, bristles, head and tail on a worm. Some of the children were able to see the worm's mouth. All of the children will be seeing egg sacs. We put together a wormbin and will keep the worms in our room until spring. The children will feed the worms the left overs from their snacks such as banana peels, apple cores, a grape or two, and strawberry tops. Worms eat any organic material.
Social Studies
We have just completed a unit on map skills in Social Studies. As part of the assessment process the children had to make their own "treasure map". They had to draw a map and write direction to a specific spot where something special would be found. I will be grading these and sending them home. There are some beautiful maps in the group!
Student of the WeekOur special student was Patrick. Patrick has two older brothers. A few of Patrick's favorite things are the color black, dogs, French Fries, the book Diary of a Whimpy Kid, and basketball. At school Patrick likes gym. At home he likes to play video games. When Patrick grows up he would like to create video games.
