We will soon be starting a new writing project! To get the students thinking about monsters, we read "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Monster Chef". While reading the stories, we made a list of adjectives or "juicy" words that we heard. The students were also asked to look at all of the illustrations and come up with their own "juicy" words to describe the monsters in the stories.
We continued talking about nouns by introducing proper nouns. These are words that are specific nouns and need an upper case letter. We made a list of examples together and then the students completed a few activities demonstrating their understanding of nouns that have upper case letters.
MATH
The students learned about ordinal numbers (first, second, third etc.) and answered questions about positions of symbols or objects in lists. They also learned about the difference between columns and rows in tables and explored number patterns within tables.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Now that we have finished our first unit in Science, we will focus on Social Studies. The students were introduced to mapping by sharing what they already know. They shared the difference between a map and globe, what kinds of things that can be found on a map and a variety of vocabulary words such as compass rose and legend. After brainstorming everything they already know, they worked on a title page for the new unit. This mini unit will help them understand where we live in relation to the four countries we study throughout the year; India, Tunisia, Ukraine and Peru.
ART
After reading the story, "Monster Mama" and discussing the illustrations, the students completed a directed drawing of themselves. They used wax crayon to colour their portrait and we had a discussion about crayon resist and how the paint will not absorb into the parts of the paper that are covered with the wax. Using paint and a straw, they created hair for their own version of themselves as the "Monster Mama".
AMAZING RACE
SPECIAL GUEST
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