Happy
December!!
I
hope all my students who participated in the Lion King Jr. Musical had an amazing time!!
1st
Grade LA
That’s your
OPINION: On Monday, I introduced the terms: opinion,
convince and persuade. I asked the students “should all first graders learn to
speak Pig Latin”? They were given a few moments to decide their opinion and
think of a reason they felt that way. We then discussed that someone’s opinion,
same or different, is not right or wrong; we are allowed to have different opinions.
This will lead to us to write a persuasive paragraph together. A majority of
the class felt first graders should learn Pig Latin. We will write our
persuasive paragraph to convince or persuade others to feel the same way.
For fun, the
kids drew a picture of their favorite activity (their opinion), then wrote a sentence on how they may convince someone to
enjoy it as well.
Groups of
50: Our last
lesson compared the weight of 2 items; we are now comparing the weight of 3
items in our new lesson we started. In this lesson we have a few new vocabulary
words, heaviest, lightest and transitivity. These first graders knocked it out
of the park understanding the concept of transitivity, so proud of them!!! Each
student then counted out 50 items to place in a bag for our centers. We
discussed counting and grouping the 50 items by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to help prevent
miscounting before putting the items in our bags. The students were then placed
in pairs with 3 different bags of 50 items, one being a bag of 50 pennies. They
then had to weight the bags and decide which was the heaviest.
HOMEWORK: The students were given a half sheet
stapled to a zip lock bag. Half the students are asked to bring in 1-5 of the
same items that would be lighter than 50 pennies and the other half are asked
to bring in 1-5 of the same items heavier than 50 pennies. Please make sure the
items can fit into a zip lock bag, even if it has to be larger than the one
provided.
2nd
Grade LA
It’s been a
long time: I haven’t had 2nd grade LA for over a week so we did a
lot of reviewing the past couple of days. We went through each chapter and
reviewed the setting, what characters were involved, and the different feelings
Edward had developed. Before reading the book we answered 7 questions based on
the knowledge we got from the title and cover. This week we answered the same 7
questions again. We wanted to see how our answers have changed after reading
half the book; we will do this one more time at the end. We will then compare
our 3 sets of answers. We will discuss what information we read that caused us
to change our minds. Before leaving on Thursday, we reread chapter 10 and got
excited about what is coming next! HOMEWORK: Read chapters
11-13. Please make sure your child brings their books back to school next week.
2nd
Grade MA
Educated
guess then measure: Last week the students estimated then measured the length and
width circumference of an egg using four different tools, least accurate
(centimeter cubes) to most accurate (measuring tape). The students were to
estimate a length in centimeters then measure it with one of the four tools
going in accuracy order. The goal of the
lesson was to estimate a length then measure. Using the measurement data they
just recorded, estimate again and re-measure with the next more accurate tool.
Doing this process with our four tools, the students should have seen their
estimates getting closer and closer to the most accurate measurement by the end.
Going over everyone’s measurements, some didn’t quite understand the idea to
use the data from their previous measurement when making their next estimate.
We did this lesson again as a class with the circumference of a roll of tape. I
made sure the students were looking at the previous measurement(s) and
explaining to everyone why they choose their next estimate. This gave the class
the chance to decide if ones thinking was correct or not and why??
*Picture fail this week. I am sorry.*
*Picture fail this week. I am sorry.*
Grammar: Monday we
reviewed verbs, nouns and pronouns. The students were then handed out two
paragraphs and needed to identify the words. They also needed to draw an arrow
showing what noun the pronoun was referring to. Of course these kids were rock
starts!!!! Tuesday we started our Modern Legend lesson. We read “The Edmoud
Fitzgerald” and will continue this next week and most likely the following
week.
Think
Deeply: This week 3rd grade math finished
our ‘In Search of the Yeti’ unit with our think deeply. On Wednesday we
reviewed the Yeti lesson to refresh our memory from the holiday break. We
discussed the Yeti story that told us how we found the foot print measurement,
the foundation of the entire unit. We also went our vocabulary words, the
measuring tools we used, who we measured and why, and if there was anything we
would have done differently. On Thursday the students spent the class time
writing their Think Deeply.
The students
are working well on their biography projects. All of you should have received
an email with the project’s due dates on them; this is to help you keep track
of the project at home. I have also informed the students they are able to come
into my class during their lunch recess to work on their projects. Below are
the instructions for students to work on their project from any computer with
internet. All of the parts to the project are shared to their google account,
accessible from google.com. The next step of the project is the biography summery,
DUE MONDAY, DECEMBER 5.
Logging into
your Google account from ANY computer:
1. Go to
google.com, click on the 9 point grid in the top right hand corner.
2. Click on
Google Drive
3. Click “sign
in with different account” OR “add account”
4. Enter YOUR
school email address: First letter of your first name, last name, last four
digits of your student ID, @myduneland.org.
5. Enter YOUR
password: lower case ‘d’ then your whole student ID#
Example:
d1234567
Think
Deeply:
On Wednesday we reviewed our Triple Play with shapes lesson. As a class we read
over our think deeply and discussed our ideas and questions on what we were
being asked to answer. I told the students to make sure and include our math
vocabulary words when writing their answer. At that time, a few (almost all) of
them, asked when I was going to hang up their vocabulary words on our word wall.
I told them if they were not up by Thursday, they did not have to write their
think deeply. One of the students came in my room before I got there on
Thursday and saw no words were up; he was quite disappointed to see them at
class time!!! It was a fun afternoon…….for me.
*Picture: Half the class (the the other half NWEA testing), obviously VERY excited seeing the word wall!!!
And, when one of your students dresses like you, hair included, you kind of need to capture it!!
*Picture: Half the class (the the other half NWEA testing), obviously VERY excited seeing the word wall!!!
And, when one of your students dresses like you, hair included, you kind of need to capture it!!
Then the younger sister sees it and wants a special picture on the blog too.....
I have the BEST students ever!!!!!! Each of them make my job so fun!!!!
