Language Arts
Most of our time during Literacy was devoted to writing. Students not only did a stellar job carefully crafting their pieces, but also sharing their stories aloud with the class with expression and fluency, as well as self confidence and pride! Be sure to stop by our Spanish bulletin board and delight yourself with our students’ fine writing pieces.
The class was presented with a sneak peak of our new book club project! In two words, Isabel Allende. I don’t know who is more excited!
In connection with science, we also spent time reading our book El maravilloso mundo de las plantas, which talks about the plant’s life cycle and reproduction.
Remember:
We will be having a comprehension quiz of book El maravilloso mundo de las plantas on Monday.
We will be having our Spelling quiz on Thursday (words with h in de middle). Make sure you practices your sentences!
Science
This week we spent time reviewing some of the concepts we have discussed during our science investigations. Students continued to record their observations of their terrariums and they have come to insightful conclusions regarding their maintenance choices , particularly the water factor. We talked about how organisms have ranges of tolerance for environmental factors and how they have specific requirements for successful growth, development, and reproduction.
Math
We spent more time reviewing how to simplify fractions and did a skittles activity to reinforce the process. At the end of the week we took a test over the fractions unit. Many students expressed enjoyment this week about all that they’ve learned about fractions in recent weeks.
History & Geography
This week we started our new unit on Feudal Japan. We have read some basic facts and ideas all week and will dive a little deeper next week. On Monday or Tuesday students will be bringing home some added requirements to be worked on outside of school in our Feudal Japan studies.
Art
In both 2nd/3rd and 4th/5th grades, the students continued working on their figure collages with a “quilt” border, as part of our Romare Bearden and Faith Ringgold art project. A few of them finished, and some of the 4th/5th grade work is on the bulletin board at school. I’ll hang up the 2nd/3rd grade work when everyone is finished. Everyone is doing a great job with this mixedmedia project!