Happy Spring room 5 parents!
We have been doing a lot since my last post in the fall. We couldn't have done it without the help and support from all of you! I am lucky to have such wonderful parents this year. Most recently, we finished up our big class Science project on the fat content in milk. We had to use food coloring and dish soap to find out which was the most fatty: 2% milk, soy milk, or eggnog. Through our investigations in December and January, we learned that 2% milk has the highest fat content because the dish soap bonded the quickest with the fat, pushing the food color out the fastest. You can see our final presentation that was turned into the school Science Fair here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mckLS5qf39OsVY5vRak4r3-qs4x9ZF0aQUF57XVKFow/edit#slide=id.p1. The good new is that our class received a third place ribbon! Way to go room 5! We will continue Science from this point on, working on our Learning Sequence with Sound. We have already learned that vibrations create sound and will be completing lessons based on hearing, seeing, and feeling sound. In math, we have been looking at the characteristics of 2D shapes. We learned what a quadrilateral is and how many different types there are (parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoid, etc.) We also learned how to count the sides and vertices on these shapes. To investigate further, we looked into hexagons and pentagons. In our addition math race, we have 3 students currently working on their 5s and one student working on 4s, which is where we should be by conference time next month. Please practice addition facts to 10 with your child at home. Practice sheets were sent home in the fall. In Language Arts, our unit was titled "Animals Everywhere". Each week, we used writing, grammar, and phonics to discuss how animals' bodies help them, how animals help each other, how animals survive in nature, what insects they knew about and how they are alike or different, and how people work with animals. We are closing our unit with an animal research project, which is due on FEBRUARY 11th! My next blog post will be at the end of April or beginning of May. See you back here then! For now, you can refer back to this site for upcoming calendar dates and event information, as well as links to our TBP toolkit. Mrs. Patel
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