Happy Fall Ya'll!
We have been doing so many exciting things in room 5 over the past two months! The students are more comfortable with the new routines and procedures of me being back from maternity leave, so we have been able to do a lot more hands-on learning experiences. In language arts, we have started Unit 3, which is called Changes Over Time. We have discussed concepts such as time and what it is, how plants change as they grow, and what a folktale is. Our vocabulary words were: calendar, immediately, occasion, schedule, weekend, assist, bloom, grasped, spied, sprout, eventually, foolish, hero, tale, and timid. High frequency words addressed were away, now, some, today, why, way, grow, pretty, should, together, water, green, any, from, happy, once, so, and upon. The phonics skills addressed have been long a, long i, and soft c, g, and -dge. The comprehension skills addressed have been character, plot, setting, plot sequence, and plot cause and effect. The comprehension strategy has been making and confirming predictions. We have read stories in many different genres, including fantasy, play, and folktale. The writing trait has been focusing on word choice and our grammar skills have been verbs (present, past, and future tense). In writing, we have been using thinking maps to brainstorm for writing projects and take notes informally. The tree map and flow maps have been focused on the most at this time in the year. We have done writing projects on the things we enjoy about the fall and everything we have learned about pumpkins. Students are required to use their thinking maps to sequence the order of events in the correct order and to make sure they cover the main idea with an opening and a closing. In math, we just finished learning about fractions and are focusing our current number corner on 3D shapes, including sphere, rectangular prism, cube, and cylinder. We have finished studying single-digit sums, combinations with the number rack, tens and teens, and exploring equations. We are starting unit 4 next week, which will focus on investigating adding and subtracting on a number line, jumping by fives and tens, jumping by fives and tens on the open number line, and measuring, comparing, and subtracting with penguins. On our class addition math race, we currently have one student working on her 5s, seven students working on their 3s, eight students working on their 2s, and four students still working to pass their 1s. We are practicing telling time to the hour on both analogue and digital clocks every day and will soon be starting to introduce time to the half hour (the 30s). We have mastered skip counting by 10s, 5s, and 2s and are currently practicing our skip counting by threes. In Science and Social Studies, we started our unit on sound, where we completed a sound walk, discussed the five senses, and will be making our own sound devices next week! We also got to investigate pumpkins, their body parts, and how they grow. We also investigated a desert tortoise with our tortoise trunk from The Living Desert. We will be making predictions on when Mojave Maxine will wake up from brumation and leave her den to determine whether it is an early or late spring. In December, we will be starting our class science project for the TBP Science Fair in January. More details about our project to come. We have studied current holidays and celebrations such as, Dia De Los Muertos, Veteran's Day, the story of the first Thanksgiving, etc. We also spent time focusing on maps. I am amazed at how hard your children work and am excited to see what the future holds for our learning adventures in room 5! Have an amazing and relaxing Thanksgiving break with family and friends! <3 Mrs. Patel
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