Word Study

We played some games today to help us learn our spelling words, patterns and also differentiating between common nouns and proper nouns.  We will be doing this throughout the week, but please make sure they are practicing their words at home as well. 

Collecting and Organizing Data

In Science, we are learning about the Scientific Method.  Today we focused on the data part of it.  We each came up with a question, surveyed the class using tally marks and then turned our data (information) into a bar graph. 

In Math we played the Number Grid Game which is also on Everyday Math Online.  I showed them all how to log on today so hopefully it will work for you tonight.  

Science

In Science lab today we did an experiment to see how much water a penny could hold.  Ask your child about it. 

Math Games

Today in math we learned some new math games that focus on addition, counting and exchanging money.  We also worked in small group to add combinations using two or three numbers to equal 100. 

Sharing our Communities

We have been working in small groups to create a community and today we finally finished and they got to present their communities to the class.  They are hanging in our room now so you can see them tomorrow at Parent Night. 

Communities

 

We are learning about communities in social studies.  We did our first group activity today where we were drawing a community.  We had to work together to decide what it needed and we needed to make sure it had the 4 parts of a community.  They did a great job! 

Reading

We have been getting all of our procedures and expectations down for reading.  We have been busy!  Today we talked about being a real reader and not a fake reader.  We sorted out some examples of both and then went to read, practicing real reading.