What are the most important "Elements of a Story'? This is what our morning discussion was based on. From this, we each created a poster as a 'cheat sheet' for the back of our journals. It included: characters, problem, theme, setting, solution and plot. This began our discussion around Fairytales. I read them "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." We could easily find the different elements in this story. On computers they practiced their spelling words through using 'word document.' In the afternoon they collected data with using a dice. With this data, they created bar graphs. What is noise pollution and how does it affect living things? We each made a K.W.L chart in our Science book. Ask your child what they learned. We started compliments last week. Each student gives another child a compliment. They really seem to enjoy this, as they practice giving and receiving kind comments. Spelling words- Working with contractions: Red: she's, I'm...
In Science we are starting a new unit, Animal Life Cycles. Yesterday we talked about the different 'super powers' animals have to protect themselves. They then completed a journal entry titled "If I were An Animal..." Ask your child what animal they wrote about and why. They completed a 3 part flap book based off of a fairytale. It included: first, next, last. There were clear characters, setting and a problem. We also talked about how readers need visuals from either pictures of descriptive words. We listened and read together the poem "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" for a great example of visualization in text. We continue to learn Multiplication through drawing arrays. Today they completed a booklet that had cutting and pasting different arrays in categories of multiplying. Our Pillars of Care this month was Respect. We went over the meaning of Respect. We made a poster together of what respect is and what it is not. In Social Studies we talked about what ...
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