Paleontology Presentations!
WOW - Students were awesome yesterday! I was SO impressed with their presentations!! Not only did each student create an organized, beautiful, and informative board about his/her special dinosaur, but they were all so confident in presenting/sharing their knowledge to an audience! It was obvious that students worked extremely hard on these projects and I want to thank you (parents/families) for helping them prepare for this special event! I am so glad that so many of you were able to make it in yesterday - I know that it requires some tricky schedule changes. I hope you enjoyed the presentations as much as I did!
Science Fair
Just a quick reminder: Students in Room 13 will be presenting their Science Fair projects on Thursday, March 8 from 8:30-9:30am in the Elmwood cafeteria. Presentations should be a breeze after the Dinosaur Presentations - right? :)
Persuasive Letters
Keep your eyes out for a very special piece of mail. :) After reading, make sure to visit the classroom website and look at the top right to participate in our Parent Poll. This will all make sense in a few more days...
Our Week in Review
READING
In reading this week, we began Unit 4 with April Pulley Sayre’s story Splish! Splash! Animal Baths. This is a wonderful story that clearly illustrates and explains how different animals get clean! We used this story to help us start thinking about Comparing (describing how things are alike) and Contrasting (describing how things are different) different animals. This will be the next type of writing that we work on and it is an important reading skill in that it helps students focus on important information and details.
SPELLING
This week, our spelling pattern focused on… “BOSSY R!” Students learned that the letter R is very bossy when it pairs up with vowels. This week, we looked specifically at the vowels A and O.
We noticed that when R follows A, it makes A say “argh” – like a pirate!
MATH
Earlier in the week, students were introduced to the concepts of multiplication and division! These concepts are taught through stories and pictures - and most students were able to solve problems accurately and independently. Later in the week, students were assessed on their knowledge of the concepts presented in Unit 6 – including comparison number stories, multi-digit subtraction (Trade-First), and early multiplication and division concepts. I look forward to taking a look at these assessments over vacation - I anticipate good results!
Valentine's Day
Tuesday was Valentine's Day and our wonderful Room Parents - Mrs. Kasper and Mrs. Whelan - came in to do a special math activity! Students estimated and counted the number of candy hearts in a box and then graphed the different colors - creating both a bar graph and a pie chart! The parents did a great job and the students had a "love"ly time! Take a peek:
SCIENCE
We finished up our Fossils Science Unit this week! The Paleontology Presentations were the culmnating activity, as well as the small assessment on Friday. I think students would agree that we all had a wonderful time learning about fossils!! I'm so impressed with all that they know! :)
Persuasive Letters
Keep your eyes out for a very special piece of mail. :) After reading, make sure to visit the classroom website and look at the top right to participate in our Parent Poll. This will all make sense in a few more days...
Our Week in Review
READING
In reading this week, we began Unit 4 with April Pulley Sayre’s story Splish! Splash! Animal Baths. This is a wonderful story that clearly illustrates and explains how different animals get clean! We used this story to help us start thinking about Comparing (describing how things are alike) and Contrasting (describing how things are different) different animals. This will be the next type of writing that we work on and it is an important reading skill in that it helps students focus on important information and details.
SPELLING
This week, our spelling pattern focused on… “BOSSY R!” Students learned that the letter R is very bossy when it pairs up with vowels. This week, we looked specifically at the vowels A and O.
We noticed that when R follows A, it makes A say “argh” – like a pirate!
Examples: star, part, market
(We don’t hear the A at all!!)
When R follows O, it makes the O say weird things too…OR!
Examples: for, thorn, sort
We better watch out for that R!! He doesn’t sound like someone we would want to be friends with!
WRITING
Students worked very hard to finish up their Persuasive Letters this week. I'm not giving away any secrets...but you should keep an eye out to see their finished work!WRITING
MATH
Earlier in the week, students were introduced to the concepts of multiplication and division! These concepts are taught through stories and pictures - and most students were able to solve problems accurately and independently. Later in the week, students were assessed on their knowledge of the concepts presented in Unit 6 – including comparison number stories, multi-digit subtraction (Trade-First), and early multiplication and division concepts. I look forward to taking a look at these assessments over vacation - I anticipate good results!
Valentine's Day
Tuesday was Valentine's Day and our wonderful Room Parents - Mrs. Kasper and Mrs. Whelan - came in to do a special math activity! Students estimated and counted the number of candy hearts in a box and then graphed the different colors - creating both a bar graph and a pie chart! The parents did a great job and the students had a "love"ly time! Take a peek:
SCIENCE
We finished up our Fossils Science Unit this week! The Paleontology Presentations were the culmnating activity, as well as the small assessment on Friday. I think students would agree that we all had a wonderful time learning about fossils!! I'm so impressed with all that they know! :)
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