Happy Wednesday! The Question of the Day was: Have you ever played by a river? Morning Work had two parts. The first part was to complete a set of analogies. The second part was to create a map of Washington D.C. Your child should have an empty space in the section showing the first five presidents of our country. One of the pictures provided was John Quincy Adams, the 6th president, not John Adams, the 2nd president!
Following our morning meeting, it was time for Mail Call! We checked out some more of Flat Stanley's adventures in Michigan, Hong Kong, and Italy!
After this, we moved on to reading/social studies/science/writing. First, we read and discussed the Scholastic News article How Do You Brush a Hippo's Teeth? This included developing an understanding of vocabulary words such as independent and prosthetic. Ask your child what these words mean! Next, the students completed reading comprehension activities about text features and answered questions using their articles. For the latter, I modeled how to respond to the questions by turning the question around and putting the question in the answer. Please reinforce this on at-home assignments. Also, please check that your child's sentences begin with capital letters and end with end marks. This is expected. The students know that this should be done. Now it is a matter of making the skill a habit through practice. Thank you!
Finally, our tooth-centric activities concluded with reading portions of the book Throw Your Tooth on the Roof. It taught us traditions that children in different parts of the world follow when they lose their baby teeth. We will read more from this book as we learn about the remaining continents in social studies. Ask your child for examples!
Today's math lesson focused on writing equations using repeated addition to find the total number of objects in arrays. For example, two rows of three triangles shows 3 + 3 = 6. Three rows of two triangles shows 2 + 2 + 2 = 6.
During science, we read the book Pedro's Rocks. This was a great introduction to the many ways that rocks can be sorted. The students then worked with partners to sort sets of river rocks in as many ways as possible. Ask your child to describe one of the sorts!
In social studies, the boys and girls were shown cloth samples from West Africa. These textiles were created using different techniques. You can see photos of the fabrics on our class Shutterfly site. One of the fabrics was an example of adinkra cloth. The boys and girls used stamps with traditional symbols to create their own adinkra cloth samplers. Stamps like this were hand carved using calabash gourds. You can try doing something similar at home by carving symbols into potatoes and then stamping paper to create designs.
The specials class of the day was art. I understand doodling was involved, but that next week a sculpture project will begin.
We will have Buddy Time tomorrow!
Following our morning meeting, it was time for Mail Call! We checked out some more of Flat Stanley's adventures in Michigan, Hong Kong, and Italy!
After this, we moved on to reading/social studies/science/writing. First, we read and discussed the Scholastic News article How Do You Brush a Hippo's Teeth? This included developing an understanding of vocabulary words such as independent and prosthetic. Ask your child what these words mean! Next, the students completed reading comprehension activities about text features and answered questions using their articles. For the latter, I modeled how to respond to the questions by turning the question around and putting the question in the answer. Please reinforce this on at-home assignments. Also, please check that your child's sentences begin with capital letters and end with end marks. This is expected. The students know that this should be done. Now it is a matter of making the skill a habit through practice. Thank you!
Finally, our tooth-centric activities concluded with reading portions of the book Throw Your Tooth on the Roof. It taught us traditions that children in different parts of the world follow when they lose their baby teeth. We will read more from this book as we learn about the remaining continents in social studies. Ask your child for examples!
Today's math lesson focused on writing equations using repeated addition to find the total number of objects in arrays. For example, two rows of three triangles shows 3 + 3 = 6. Three rows of two triangles shows 2 + 2 + 2 = 6.
During science, we read the book Pedro's Rocks. This was a great introduction to the many ways that rocks can be sorted. The students then worked with partners to sort sets of river rocks in as many ways as possible. Ask your child to describe one of the sorts!
In social studies, the boys and girls were shown cloth samples from West Africa. These textiles were created using different techniques. You can see photos of the fabrics on our class Shutterfly site. One of the fabrics was an example of adinkra cloth. The boys and girls used stamps with traditional symbols to create their own adinkra cloth samplers. Stamps like this were hand carved using calabash gourds. You can try doing something similar at home by carving symbols into potatoes and then stamping paper to create designs.
The specials class of the day was art. I understand doodling was involved, but that next week a sculpture project will begin.
We will have Buddy Time tomorrow!