Nov. 28th-Dec. 4th

WOW!  We really have been working hard. 
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Our book orders are due this Friday.  I opened all of the available books online if any parent is interested.

Reading:  We started to learn how to write a complete summary.  We have been doing lots of modeling and shared practice. Some groups have started to write them on their on their own others are still working on the different strategies to writing a complete summary.  We shared our Readers Theater with each other.  We wrote about the cornucopia and described different fruits using as many adjectives as we could think of.  It is exciting to see how the children have improved in word attack and fluency.  Also how they interact with each other as they start to work with small groups to figure out beginning, middle and end of the stories.

Math:  We took our pretest on BASE 10 numbers and sometime this week we will be taking our Post Test.  The students should have brought their Pretest home with them if they would like to practice.

Social Studies:  We had our Feast in Africa--in was flour, salt and water fried.  We talked how many people in the world don't have all the good things to eat that we do.


Science:  We made pictures of the moon phases, did an experiment with golf balls and a light showing how the sun hits the moon and the earth.  We also took cookies and made moon phases out of them. We will finish up our unit on the moon next week.