LANGUAGE ARTS
After having two weeks off, the students were excited to write in their Journals. They wrote about their Christmas and New Years festivities, time spent with family and of course what Santa brought them.
They had some time to reflect on 2019 and write down special moments throughout the year.
After reading "Squirrels New Years Resolution", we had a discussion about what the word resolution means. The students shared examples that they knew; exercising, eating healthy, decluttering the house and saving more money. I asked the students to think of ONE WORD that they would like to work on in the New Year. After giving them a few minutes to think, we compiled their words into a class list. They came up with some great WORDS such as; kind, patient, caring, helpful, confident, polite, healthy and tidy. The students looked at the list and made a final decision on ONE WORD they wanted to focus on for 2020. They were given a small poster and worked on illustrating their word using block and bubble letters. Included on the poster was also an explanation about why they chose that word and three ways to help them work on that word throughout the year.
To continue our "New Years" theme this week, the students were given the following letters; e, i, o, o, u, t, r, s, l, n, for a Making Words activity. The mystery word was RESOLUTION!
This week, we also started reading books about snowmen. We started with "Snowmen at Night" by Caralyn Buehner. As I read the story aloud, the students picked out nouns, adjectives and verbs from each of the pages. Then they used a graphic organizer to write notes about what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story. We had a discussion about what their snowman might do at night and the students began creating their own ideas for writing. Next week, they will work on their own version of the short story.
They also started working on a comical Reader's Theater called "Snow Many Noses".
MATH
This week, we worked on two and three digit addition without regrouping. They practiced stacking numbers and making sure the ones, tens and hundreds columns lined up. They also worked on finding the sum by always starting in the ones column first. The class was given many opportunities to practice their skills on whiteboards, loose leaf and even a few homework questions. Now that they have mastered addition without regrouping, we will work on regrouping next week.
SCIENCE
We started our next unit in Science called "Hearing and Sound". Before we started learning the different concepts, the students had the opportunity to share with the class what they think they already knew about how we hear or how sound is made. We made a class list so that we can refer to their ideas throughout the unit.
For homework, they were asked to research an interesting fact about hearing or sound. They came back with some very cool things to share with the class.
After reading, "The Listening Walk" by Paul Showers, we ventured out on our own walk to record sounds that we heard both inside and outside of the school.
The students watched a video called "The First Look At Sound" to introduce vocabulary for the unit. They took notes and wrote definitions into the duotangs for reference.
We completed a hands on activity to demonstrate vibration, volume and pitch. Using a ruler, the students plucked the end hanging off their desk and listened to how the pitch changed as the length of the ruler changed. They recorded and discussed their observations.
ART
For Art this week, we focused on perspective. We used the story "Snowmen at Night" to look at the different "camera" views of the snowmen illustrations. Some of the pictures were drawn from above, below and the side. The students worked through a directed drawing of a snowman as seen from below. They were also taught how to make different shades with oil pastels.
AMAZING RACE
STUDENT OF THE WEEK
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