The Week in Review:
Language Arts:
Online story mapping of character and conflict
finished book club books
reader’s theater: Orpheus and Eurydice
Character chart for the main character of our books
continued work with quotation marks in the beginning, middle and end of a quote
Math:
making division posters
dividing using 5, 10, 0, and 1
math games involving multiplication and division fact families
Science:
In science class, we’ve begun to explore how music can affect our feelings. We’re learning about the different elements of music, such as tempo, rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, and major and minor chords and relating these elements to the emotions that music can evoke. This week, we listened to and described three musical selections that shared a melody but had other elements that changed the mood of the song.
Have a great weekend!
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2-26-10 Friday News and Notes: third grade
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Everyone enjoyed wearing their favorite color to school today! George and Alex dyed their hair and Avi made a fun yellow hat! Can you guess what Havi’s favorite color is!
Here is what is going on next week- March 1-5th
Studio- Making print reflections about the symphony
Small Group- Board games
Literacy- Beginning letter sounds, rhyming, letter of the day, Handwriting without Tears, Journals
Math- number recognition while playing board games, pattern sharing bag, question of the day (counting and adding the results together)
P.E.- Olympic games
Spanish- Songs, animals
Language Arts:
The students are working their way through Walk Two Moons. They continue to participate in literature circles to discuss the chapters and the events that happen throughout the book. They have written a summary for chapters 1-10, and will begin the chapter 11-20 summary next week.
The students are developing their “musical persona,” or themselves as a musician. They have been asked to create their persona, as well as draw a self portrait of themselves as this person.
We start a new genre of music next week: Classical and Opera
Math:
The students took a test on chapter 5 this past week. Each student did a great job. They should be very proud of themselves!
We have begun Chapter 6- Adding and Subtracting Fractions. We will be working through this chapter over the next week.
Spanish:
Practiced reading comprehension and spelling.
Practiced how to conjugate “ar,” “er” and “ir” verbs in the present tense and past tense.
Practiced the actions in progress: the present progressive tense
Practiced the superlative construction.
Wrote a dialogue about going on a trip to South America.
Practiced conversation about going on a trip to South America.
Played games
Science:
The students are plugging away at their science project research. Students have been busily reading, taking notes, outlining, and organizing notecards, and some students are now writing the first draft of their reports. Once they have written a few drafts, the next step is to decide on a project they would like to pursue and complete a project proposal. Because the students chose project topics based on their interests, they have been quite invested!
Today was pajama day in Kindergarten! The students wore their favorite pajamas to school. In Performing arts class, the students acted out scenes using pirate music and a treasure box!
In honor of Dr. Seuss’ Birthday on March 2nd, the first grade will participate in many Seuss related activities including reading books, poems, estimating fish, graphing fish, eating a special red and white snack, counting pairs of socks.. two by two, etc. The morning will start with a special breakfast of green eggs and ham. Make sure your child is not late on Tuesday….. I wouldn’t want them to miss out:)
February 26, 2010 | Filed under: 1st
Corey had the science bag this week. He did an experiment titled: Drop Out! He dipped strips of paper in water and then one in oil. A drop of food coloring was then placed on each of the strips. The drop of food coloring on the oiled paper sat on the surface while the drop on the water-dipped strips spread out. Corey told the students that the oil is too sticky… so the drop sticks like a little ball and the water is just WET. We were amazed to see that water and oil act differently!! They were all very excited that they each got a turn to squeeze the dropper onto the strips of paper.
Due Monday:
- WTM Literature Circle 9- Chapters 18 and 19
- WTM Literature Circle 10- Chapters 20 and 21
- Math (Mosher)- workbook pages 75 and 76
- Writing Prompt- List 10 things that annoy you. Now, choose one and write a paragraph describing why this annoys you. Your paragraph should have a strong introduction sentence and should be at least 100 words long.
- Current Events Article
Due Wednesday:
February 26, 2010 | Filed under: 6th
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