We continued our unit on Avid Readers this week, getting more and more excited about our books. This week we focused on reading partners talking about important parts in books, where characters have strong emotions. We also tried to find just the right word to describe how a character is feeling, instead of just "happy" or "sad". Lastly, because avid readers just LOVE their books, we picked our favorite book that we read this week and recommended it to a friend. We learned about the "blurb" on the back of books, and we tried to do the same: give our friends a tease about our beloved stories and try to get them hooked on it, too!
In Writers Workshop we challenged ourselves to teach our readers more and more about our topics. We learned about a few nonfiction text features that we can add to our pieces. We read our books to a partner to get ideas of what else we could add, asking, "Do you have any more questions about my topic?". Lastly, we chose one piece to edit and publish next week!
During math this week we did addition equations both horizontally and vertically. We played a game where we rolled a die and slowly added our numbers together until we reached the sum of 15. We also did a big project called "Inventory Bags", where partners counted various items presented in subsets, found the sum and used numbers, pictures and/or words to represent the quantity (i.e. "I count 5 pens, 6 bears and 3 blocks. What is my sum? How can I show this on paper?). Finally, we all compared our results to see if we had counted correctly and presented our data in an accurate way.
In science, we attended a S.T.E.M. workshop. See the post below for information and photos.
Our social studies unit was on shelters this week. We made a brainstorm of different kinds of shelters, discussed why we need shelters, and we searched in books for shelters made from various materials. We discussed why different parts of the world use different materials.
We also visited with our 5th Grade Buddies. We read a story about honesty and worked together to write a letter to the main character. Ask your child about the story!
News & Notes:
- Book Bags are due on Monday. There will be no books sent home next week. Don't forget to have your child read on Raz-Kids for additional practice.
- Save the Date: Kindergarten Spring Concert, April 25th, 9:30 am. All are invited!
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| Building shelters! |
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| Inventory bag data represented in various ways |
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| Taking inventory with partners |
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| Writing partners ask each other questions. |
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| Building shelters |
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| Searching for shelters made from various materials |
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| Building the sum of 15 |
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| Sight word spelling practice |
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| Labeling the parts of a house |
