Looking at old phones during Social Studies! News:
Reading: This week we continued learning about "close reading" (looking at/ examining a text closely to better understand it). We learned how to find the main idea/topic of an article and how to identify supporting details. We practiced this as a group, with partners, and individually. Writing: We finished learning about quotation marks. Students practiced adding commas and quotation marks to several sentences. We discussed our new research project that we are starting next week - biographies. Students learned about several possible Americans to choose from and picked one to start researching next week. Word Study: We continued working on writing contractions. Students played "teacher/student" with contractions and wrote contractions for each two-word card they found around the room. We took the assessment on Wednesday. We spent two days discussing compound words and made a compound word flip book. Math: Understanding place value continued to be our focus this week. They worked on creating different ways to represent the same number. They learned the meaning of base ten numerals (235), expanded form (200+30+5), and number word (two hundred thirty-five). We worked on comparing numbers using symbols and comparing sentences (greater than, less, than, equal to). Students ordered numbers using words greatest and least. Social Studies:
We continued learning how science and technology have changed our daily lives (past and present). Table groups made timelines of different types of transportation. We discussed how communication has changed over time. We explored what life would be like for a student in the future and in the past and did a past and present sort. Students enjoyed exploring the old items I brought in. News:
Reading: This week we continued learning about "close reading" (looking at/ examining a text closely to better understand it). Students identified words on a non-fiction passage where they needed to use strategies to discover their meanings - prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, context clues. We looked at an article we have already seen and reread it to learn how rereading can help us understand a text better. We started working on identifying the main idea of a non-fiction passage. Writing: Our goal this week was to understand and use quotation marks in our writing. We used sentences and dry erase markers to add quotation marks and played a Scoot game to identify which sentence used quotation marks correctly. Students practiced this on several papers. Word Study: We started learning how to make contractions and use an apostrophe in the right place. We worked on identifying the two words that each contraction comes from. We did contraction "surgery" on two words to turn them into a contraction. Math: Our new learning goal is to understand place value to 1,000 including reading and writing numbers, comparing, and skip counting. Students took a pre-assessment on Monday. We worked on representing hundreds, tens, and ones with base ten blocks and in number form. Students played base ten block bingo. They worked on creating different ways to represent the same number. Social Studies:
We collected data about goods/services we would want to buy and plotted them on bar graphs. Students took an Economics Assessment on Tuesday. We started learning about past and present. We discussed the difference between these two terms and watched a video explaining vocabulary like generation and century. Mrs. Hoertz's dad brought his 1930 car for us to examine and compare with today's cars. News:
Reading: Our learning goal this week was to use multiple strategies to solve unknown words. We learned that a synonym is a word that means the same (or about the same) as another word. Students used "synonym rolls" to come up with synonyms for different common words. We learned how prefixes and suffixes can help us learn the meaning of words. Writing: We continued to think about when to use commas in our writing. Students practiced adding commas to different sentences. We took a quiz on commas on Wednesday. Thursday we spent our writing time writing about Valentine's Day. :) Word Study: We finished learning about vowel teams. Students played teacher/student with all the vowel teams we have learned. We practiced spelling on whiteboards and took the quiz on Wednesday. Thursday we did a Valentine's spelling activity. Math: We finished learning about measuring with inches, feet, and yards. We did a review page on Monday and took the assessment on Tuesday. Students enjoyed using pattern blocks to make Valentine's themed shapes and did several other Valentine's math activities. Social Studies:
We continued our learning goal surrounding economics. Students learned about natural resources and created a booklet of things that come from trees. We watched a Reading Rainbow video called "The Lemonade Stand." Students brainstormed different ways we can pay for goods and services. Global Day of Play! News:
Reading: We started learning about "close reading" (looking at/examining a text closely to better understand it). We examined fiction and non-fiction texts and discussed what makes up a paragraph. We also explored "narrator", including what 1st and 3rd person means. Writing: Our learning goal was to understand and use commas in our writing. We looked at different places we might need commas. Students searched their books for examples of commas. Small groups read different sentences and decided where to put commas. We also did a Groundhog Day project on Monday. Word Study: We focused on the long u vowel teams of -ue and -ew. These are words like rescue and few. Students did a "What Looks Right?" page to determine which spelling pattern to use. Math: Students took a measurement quick check on Monday. We compared units of length and discovered why measuring in inches would have a larger answer than measuring in feet or yards. Students found the difference of lengths by using a strategy like subtraction. Social Studies:
We read a book called The Little House to demonstrate how humans can affect the environment in positive and negative ways. We started learning about economics. We learned that most people around the world work in jobs in which they produce specific goods and services. Students wrote about a job they would like to have when they grow up. Thank you Mr. Tocknell for coming in and sharing about his job as a pilot! :) |
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