Week 14

Dear Parents,

     This week in math, many skills were taught. We finished up time, then began area and perimeter and ended the week wth measuring in standard units. They know which is the best unit to use to measure an object; inches, feet, or yards. Partners went on scavenger hunts to find an object in the room that was about 6 inches. We learned that if we are measuring and the object measures to the half way mark (between two numbers)or greater you put down the larger number. If its measurement falls before the half way mark you put down the lesser of the two numbers.

     In reading the focus of the week was text organization and story structure. We made a story map with characters, setting, problem and solution. We saw that one of the texts we read was organized in steps and wrote the beginning, middle and end of the story using one complete sentence for each.

     Shhhhh …. In writing we worked on a Thanksgiving project that will come home as a gift for you next week. We also kept working on our imaginative  stories and next week will be writing an expository text. Our grammar focus was how to use the to be verbs by having subject/verb agreement. We ended the week by talking about the present vs. past tense.

     In Science we had many fun investigations that helped inform us about motion. We learned that objects either slide, roll or spin. Their paths can be zig-zag, a straight line, or in a curve. We painted with marbles, dipped a top in some paint so we could see its path as it moved around a large sheet of butcher paper, and watched as items rolled, sun or slid down a ramp.