News for June 3This week the children watched the caterpillars grow and grow! In one week the caterpillars have grown so much bigger. Just like the caterpillar in the movie The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The students noticed that the caterpillars now have black and white spikes, white stripes and dots and their poop is also much bigger.
We read a non-fiction book about insects to learn more about this type of animal. The class learned that insects have 6 legs, many have their skeleton on the outside of their bodies (exoskeleton) and that they use their antennae to feel, smell and taste!This came in handy when a child called one of our caterpillars a "worm" and the class used what they learned to reason why a worm is not an insect.
The class learned a new song about the butterfly life cycle and learned the American Sign Language signs to go with the English words. A copy of this song was sent home on Friday.
We also read a fiction book called The Alphabet Tree. In this book a bee and a caterpillar help letters to make words and sentences. As always, more information about the books we read in class can be found at our sister blog site:In math, we talked a lot about the different ways of skip counting. The students reviewed counting by 2's and 10's and learned how to count by 5's.
The children were given a problem solving challenge this week using plastic cups. This year, the students have become very skilled at stacking plastic cups in different ways. So much so, that they easily can construct a tall structure on the floor that is so high they ask me to put the final cups on the top! So the challenge this week was to build structures, but each cup needed to have a plastic teddy bear in it. After several tries where the structure collapsed, the children persevered and began to use what they learned to create more stable structures.
This week all the children were tested on their alphabet/sound knowledge and sounding out of novel words using the strategies learned this year.
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