This four day week, the children were very busy!
The class has almost finished learning all the lowercase cursive letters. This week the students learned e, l, m and n.
In Social Studies, the children learned the names and locations of the seven continents on the earth. They are: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica.
As a reward for working so hard on the sock creature movies, the students got to see five short movies of Lego animation.
In math, the students continue to work on multiplication. At this age, the students are not required to learn the "times tables". However, they need to understand that multiplication makes the addition of equal amounts faster and the children must be able to figure out these kind of problems using strategies such as skip counting. The students figured out how many wheels we would have if each student had a bicycle. (That's 20 groups of 2...)
Each student read and did the activities in a little booklet from the pet store, Pet Valu. Then each child wrote a letter to Pet Valu letting them know what she/he thought about the book. They wrote about what they liked and why, what they didn't like and why and what they could do to improve the activity book. These letters will be mailed to Pet Valu and hopefully they will write us back!
The school was given a challenge by the Eco Club to create an egg out of recycled materials for Earth Week next week. Our class made an huge egg out of cut up plastic egg cartons. Each child cut up 6 egg cups. The students used what they knew about multiplication to help figure out how many egg cups we used. We figured out that 20 groups of 6 egg cups means we used 120 egg cups to create our big egg (20 x 6 = 120).
The students are now working on the good copies of the stories based on book jackets of old library books, that they started last week. The emphasis for these stories was to include lots of adjectives to make their writing not only more interesting to read but also to help the reader with the comprehension strategy of "making a picture in your mind".
The children learned about the Jewish holiday of Passover and the Christian holiday of Easter. The class had a chance to try matzah, the unleavened bread eaten by people celebrating Passover this time of year. The students also created decorated Easter eggs.
Books read aloud this week:
Pippi Longstocking (finished - chapter book) by Astrid Lundgren
The Matzah Man (A Passover Story) by Naomi Howland
The Easter Egg by Jan Brett
Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream (A Mathematical Story) by Lisa Woodruff
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