Week 15

 Dear Parents, 

          This Week in Math we finished up our unit on measurement in inches, feet, yards, centimeters and meters. We learned time to the minute and reviewed how to find area in square units. We took our assessment on Friday.

           In writing we finished up our special holiday gift for you, worked on writing projects in process and wrote a winter acrostic. This one they wrote totally on their own with no brainstorming. My writers are growing and improving every day!

           In social studies/reading we had a Scholastic News article and several Thanksgiving stories entitled “Are You Thankful for Pumpkin Pie?”, Thanksgiving at the Tappletons, Turkey Trouble, A Turkey for Thanksgiving and Arthur’s Thanksgiving. We had a comp check over one of the stories as well as the scholastic News Article.

           In Science we began our weather unit by Brainstorming kinds of weather and looking at weather tools meteorologists use to tell us about the weather. We had a hands on experience for reading a thermometer that was placed in three different cups of water. We used hot tap water, ice water and room temperature water. We experienced a talk/read/talk/write activity as well. We  rained into a rain gauge and practiced reading how much precipitation had fallen.

Week 14

 Dear Parents,

                 This week in math we have been estimating and measuring objects in our room with centimeters and meters. We talk about which unit of measurement would be best to use as well as which unit would have more or fewer units of measurement. They have been excited as they estimate and match the true measurement.

                  In writing this week we have finished up acrostic poems. One acrostic was to celebrate and honor veterans. The children did a wonderful job with their writing and at the Veterans Day Program. I made copies of their poems to send home with veterans. We also worked on a special Thanksgiving gift for you- SHHHHH, it’s a secret!

                  In Reading/Social Studies We read the story Going Places and took a comprehension test. We combined this with writing and learned how to analyze a prompt and wrote to a prompt about this story. We read a Scholastic News Article called Fly High For Veterans Day and took a reading checkpoint over it. We learned the differences between folktales and fairytales. We listened to a few of these types of stories.

                    In science we did a talk/read/talk/write activity and highlighted the important information. We discussed activities we have done that are pushes, pulls or both.We created an accordion book with the information we learned. We took our assessment on Friday.

Week 13

 Dear Parents,

              This week in math we learned about area using square units. We made area robots and added the different We then used ordinary units of measurement like a paperclip to estimate and measure objects. We then went on to customary units of measurement like inches, feet and yards. We are having so much fun measuring around our classroom.

                In writing this week we continued in the writing process for both our narrative stories and our imaginary stories. We learned about Veteran’s Day and wrote a VETERAN acrostic poem. They were very well written. I made copies to hand out to our visiting veterans on Veteran’s Day.

                 In Reading /Social Studies we read the nonfiction story Who Are Government Leaders. We created a flip book where we learned about our local, state and federal governments. We now know who the leaders are in our city, state and country.

                  In science we had a push and pull field day as we experienced push and pull activities out on our playground. We did a talk, read, talk write activity about these forces.