Happy
Friday
1st Grade LA
This week we finished our Creaser Cipher
wheel fun! We completed a cipher puzzle worksheet. (There was also a worksheet
that went home for fun, along with the wheel.) The students then chose a word
from the puzzle, found a connection word for it and drew a detailed picture.
While a number of students choose sky and clouds, a few, great, out of the box
connections were; water and fish by Adelyn, water and glass by Camille and
water and sand by Henry!!!
1st Grade MA
Scale Time!!! We had fun this week working with partners.
The class broke into groups of two for measuring centers. Each center contained
1 heavy item, 1 medium item, 1 light item, and 1 item about the same weight as
another. The children then needed to predict using their “scale” arms, if an
item was lighter than, heavier than, or about the same as another. Once their
predictions were made, they needed to measure the items with our hanger scales.
We have 5 stations; we will most likely be finishing this next week.
*I want to apologize, I dropped the ball on second grade photos this week!!!*
I am SORRY!!!!!
2nd Grade LA
Sentence Dissection, say what????? Once we learned what the word “dissection” meant, we were good to go. ;) The students did a great job on reviewing what nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs were. They taught me some cute songs to go with them, if you’ve never heard them.
Sentence Dissection, say what????? Once we learned what the word “dissection” meant, we were good to go. ;) The students did a great job on reviewing what nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs were. They taught me some cute songs to go with them, if you’ve never heard them.
Our Edward homework this week is very
simple, read chapters 5 & 6. The students may read it to an adult or older
sibling. They may also take turns
reading the pages with someone. Retelling what they read is always a good idea
as well.
2nd Grade MA
Think Deeply: The ‘Think Deeply’ in math is
writing to understand. Think deeply questions will always review what our
lesson was about. This is to help the student be able to retell what they
learned in word form. This took both days and will be finished on Monday. It
will not usually take this long, but I wanted to be sure the children knew what
kind of information was important to add.
3rd Grade LA
Grammar Time: On Monday we worked on
grammar, nouns especially. We looked at the many different jobs nouns have in a
sentence. We also labeled a sentence’s article adjective, subject noun, verb,
preposition, object of the preposition. We also leaned to separate a sentence
from the complete subject and the complete predicate. Tuesday we started a new
genre of stories, Tall Tales, by reading 2 versions of Johnny Appleseed. This
will be continued next week as well.
3rd Grade MA
Building a Yeti: This week we read a story
about a Yeti sighting in the Himalayas. Our story lead us to a Yeti footprint we
needed to measure. Upon losing our pack in a crevasse with all of our measuring
supplies, we had to measure the foot print with an unsharpened pencil found in
our pocket. The footprint was about 2 pencil lengths long. From this
information the class will need to construct a life size Yeti……..Picture to
come next week!
4th Grade LA
This was the week of grammar. 4th
grade as well had to analyze sentences and label the article adjective,
adjective, noun, verb, conjunction, subject and the predicate. They did a great
job!! On Tuesday, we picked biographies to read and started to work on a
biography summery. All this will be leading up to our biography project we will
be starting in a couple of weeks. I will be sending home information next week
on it. In the meantime, make sure to ask your child what kind of man or woman
they may want to research. The person needs to be someone who has changed the
world; Taylor Swift would not work, sorry!!
4th Grade MA
Game time: Wednesday we worked on one more
worksheet that helped us compare and contrast different polygons. This allowed
us to analyze what shapes have same, similar, and different properties. This
knowledge was reinforced in our card game we played Thursday. Triple Play is a
game using cards with different polygons, front and back. The goal is to get
the most points. Points are made by collecting three of a kind in squares and
trapezoids earning 10 points, rectangles and rhombi earning 5 points, and
parallelograms and regular polygons earning 3 points. If you noticed, the strategy was to put
shapes in the most detailed definition they fit. For example, a square could be
named a rectangle, parallelogram, or regular polygon. However, the most points
would be earned if it were placed under the square category.
