Good day to everyone. Just a reminder that the permission forms for our field trip to Devonian Botanical Garden need to be returned with money by this Friday. We are wrapping up any unfinished core curriculum and will soon be winding down for the year.
Language Arts
Spelling:
Our spelling words for this week are homonyms. These are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and mean something different. They are as follows;
hole whole no know not knot ate eight to too two right write one won
Writing:
For writing, we will be finishing up our Goldilocks stories that are being written by the students, with new characters. These are their own made up stories that follow the story line of the original Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. They got to make their own new characters and ideas to make it their own. We have had a continued focus on including exciting detail, forming complete sentences and using proper punctuation and capitalization.
Math
In math we have finished up addition and subtraction and will be writing our unit test this week. We have already began looking at 2D shapes and 3D objects, classifying them, naming them, and grouping them, based on attributes. For example what two objects fit in this group; They must have round faces, and they can slide. The answer would be a cone and a cylinder, as they both have a round face and can slide. This is the mathematical terminology I would like the students using when describing shapes and objects; Faces (flat or round), edges (straight or curved), vertices, rolls, slides.
Science
In science we finished up our buoyancy and boats unit. We have started our small crawling and flying animals unit, which we will be supplemented by our field trip to the botanical gardens.
