Week of Nov. 19

Upcoming Events:

J November 22 and 23: No School, Thanksgiving Break

J Dec. 12 Early Out (2 hr.)

JK-1 Music Concert at 7pm at Emmetsburg High School auditorium.  Students need to arrive by 6:30.  (More information to come.)

J Dec. 21 Early Out (1 hr.)

Notes:

JThis week we used our word work time to finish up some of our bellwork.  Students that got finished were able to choose from play-dough, whiteboards, and newsy words.

JOur testing strategy that we worked on this week was:

          -The correct answer says the most about the picture.

Things to Work on:

JSequencing (First, Next, Then, Last)

What we have been up to:

Reading: We did not have a spelling test this week due to a short week.  This week we read some books about Thanksgiving and made some booklets on the first Thanksgiving.  On Tuesday a third grade class came to our room and we read poems about Thanksgiving to them.  They also read some things to us.  Students really enjoyed their reading buddies. 

Math: We have continued our study on place value.  We talked about two-digit numbers and how many tens and how many ones each number has.  We have talked about grouping things into groups of ten to help us count more efficiently.

Science: This week we have talked about ways/ things that animals eat.  We tasted carrots, raisins, and popcorn to see which teeth we use to chew food with.  We talked about how our molars are shaped differently than our front teeth.  We then related this to food that animals eat: herbivore and carnivore.  Students cut pictures of animals and sorted them into groups of plant eating and meat eating.  We have just started our research project on our animal.  We will continue working on that after break.