Your children will soon be "published" authors! This week, students will finish re-writing and illustrating their first narratives. We'll put some finishing touches on their work and let them share. In writing, we've focused on capital letters to start sentences, ending punctuation, indenting paragraphs, using quotation marks, beginnings, and endings. We'll continue this week by starting another narrative. The more the students write, the better their writing will be =)
In reading, we'll continue with finding the meaning of unfamiliar words in their texts. At home, read along with your child and pause to ask what a word means. Students should be reading before and after the word to seek its meaning, looking for a definition, or substituting another word to see if it's reasonable (one of our vocabulary words!). In math, we're moving to geometry. We'll study and recognize the attributes of squares, rectangles, trapezoids, etc. I'll be including some art (looking at Picasso's work) and having children search for shapes they know. If time permits, we'll try our hand at creating Picasso-like work with placing our 2-D shapes in interesting arrangements and coloring them to create masterpieces =) We'll be wrapping up our science unit this week with a test. To keep science hands-on and interesting, students will create backbones out of egg carton sections, measure different bones, and check how quick their nervous system responds to different stimuli. Following this, we'll move on to our social studies unit. ***Remember Wednesday is a teacher work day =). Enjoy your day! Thank you for all you do to support your child, Amy Flowers [email protected]
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AuthorHi! I'm Amy Flowers-mom to four great kids and one energetic puppy. I've been in education fifteen plus years and am passionate about igniting a love for learning, not just filling a bucket.. Archives
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