Week of Nov. 12

Upcoming Events:

J November 21: 1 hr. Early Out

J November 22 and 23: No School, Thanksgiving Break

Notes:

JOur new word work activities this week include: play-dough, making the words with construction paper, memory, magnetic letters, and a magazine search for specified letters.

JOur testing strategy that we worked on this week was

          -Remember, the correct answer is the opposite of the underlined part.

          -When you think you hear the correct answer, put your finger next to it.  Listen

to all the choices.

Things to Work on:

JPlace value (How many groups of tens and how many leftover?)

What we have been up to:

Reading: Our theme this week was about various cultures.  We worked with words with the short /u/ sound.  We also spent the week working on visualizing the story in our head so that we can easily retell the story. 

Math: This week we talked about place value, how many tens and how many leftover.  We worked on adding two digit numbers by tens and then ones. 

Science: This week we finished learning about animal classifications.  On Monday we talked about insects and its characteristics.  We have begun learning what makes up a herbivore and a carnivore.  The most exciting thing that we started was that students got to pick a nonfiction book from the other side of the library for a research project.  Students are picking an animal that they like and making a poster about what they learn about it: herbivore/ carnivore, life cycle, how does it move, and what covers the body (fur, scales, shells, etc.).  On Friday the Palo Alto County Conservation Board brought in animal coverings for us to see and touch.