Monday, December 8, 2014

Week of December 8

 
Our Resources for the week are: Monday- #1-18 P.E. and #19-37 Media, Tuesday- #1-18 P.E. and #19-37 Art and Thursday- Music. Wednesday is an Early Release Day and Friday is a Winter Holiday Shirt Day. (We've got to win the trophy back!!) Orion will be bringing in Fun Friday snacks for the class. ooh and make sure to wish Alexia a Happy Birthday on Tuesday. She will be joining the 6 year old club!

MATH 
This week we continue our measurement unit. Using balance scales and bear counters, students will work together to explore weighing objects from around the room. Towards the end of the week we will begin measuring the lengths of objects using non-standard units such as paper clips and craft sticks. Sid the Science Kid loves to measure. Here is a short video clip the children are sure to enjoy!


ELA
(English Language Arts~ Reading and Writing)
The sight words we are focusing on are some, was, not and has. We are working hard at reading the sight words!! This quarters goal is to read 50 and if you're thinking ahead... we aim for 100 sight words by the end of the year. We are also practicing using our sounds for blending and rhyming. Most students are catching on to blending quickly. (example I say, " /g/o/t/" and the student replies with "goat.") Rhyming is a little trickier because they have to apply the use of their sounds to the ends of words. 



Now on to Holiday's Around the World. We are a busy bunch this week!! Monday we are going to China and learning about the Chinese New Year. Tuesday we are riding a Greyhound bus around the U.S.A. and learning about Kwanzaa. Wednesday we are heading to Mexico and learning about Las Pasadas. Thursday we are flying to Italy and learning about Old Befana. (The students were able to see money from Italy. Jaiden made a little book and brought it in to share with the class last week.) , Then we will end our week by flying to the Netherlands on Friday and learn about St. Nicholas Day. As previously mentioned, during the "flights" we will discus the landforms, foods and dress of each country, along with a holiday they celebrate. When the "flight" ends we will make a craft, try some of the food that goes along with the country. If time permits, we will also make a journal entry about the country ~color their flag and write an interesting fact that we learned.

SCIENCE
Our class scientists will continue to explore gravity. This week students will make paper airplanes and use mini-parachutes to examine how objects get pulled to the ground.

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