Language Arts
We completed our unit on Teamwork with a big assessment. We talked a lot about the importance of assessments and why we should do our best work. (We talked about how assessments are used to help teachers discover which lessons really worked and which ones didn’t. We talked about how assessments are opportunities for students to show off what they know. If they get something wrong on an assessment it helps let the teacher know this is an area we need to work on in class. Everyone seemed pretty excited about taking the assessment and did a great job staying on task.)
Our next unit is all about the ocean. This will be a fun unit for the class. Please send in any beach/ocean pictures you have of your child that might help us in our writing.
Math
We had fun adding spheres/ esferas and cubes / cubos to our farm mural. We talked about all the spheres we see and use on a regular basis. We also talked about the difference between spheres and circles. We added ‘sphere sheep’ to our mural. We learned how to make a cube cow for our mural. Making a cube really help the students understand the dimensions of 6 squares. They did a great job with this!
We really focused on subtraction within 20. Students are doing a great job using the number line to count backwards. (Counting backwards on a number line is a great subtraction strategy!)
Science
This week we continued learning about ways to take care of the Earth. We read a poem called “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”, by Shel Silverstein. We had a discussion about responsibilities and our responsibility to take care of the Earth. We talked about what happens when we don’t take care of our responsibilities. Hopefully nothing like what happened in the story! See if your child can explain what happened to Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout.
We learned about pollution and how land, air, and water all suffer from different types of pollution, and all types of pollution are caused by human activities. We discussed that if people are careful and creative, they can help reduce pollution. We learned about air pollution specifically and how pollution in one location can make even the air
that is far away in other places around the world dirty. We identified sources of air pollution, including cars and electricity produced by coal-fired power plants.
We enjoyed a visit from Ms. Ellen from Waste Connection who came in on Thursday to talk with us about recycling, landfills, and composting. We did a fun relay to help us learn about recycling as well. See if kiddo can tell you about her visit.
I hope everyone enjoyed the field trip on Friday to the Water Resource Center! I know I did!
Have a great weekend!
Art
All the students continued working on their Mother’s Day pictures. I know you’ll enjoy their colorful, happy artwork! The students also finished their “Very Hungry Caterpillar” pictures. They did a great job cutting out shapes and gluing them together to make very cute caterpillars!