Last week of November

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. 

Monday the students will be bringing home their "Base Ten"  Pre test.  We are over half finished with our unit and will be taking the test sometime the last week of November.  It would be a good study guide.

There will not be any homework or spelling other than--- reading just to enjoy reading this week. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Kitchen

Nov 9th

Reading:  We worked on making drawings of the beginning, middle and end of our guided reading books and then we wrote summaries.  We are trying to use key words such as "in the beginning, the problem was, next, then, after that, finally, in the end" to help us go in order and write about key events.

Math:  We continue to review what we have learned so far this year and we started our base 10 unit.  We are off to a great start.  Part of the students worksheet were to play a game where they rolled dice and  put them together trying to make the biggest number. Then they had to figure our how many 10's and ones there were. The player who rolled the biggest number was the winner. We also practiced using each child and their fingers.  If we had the number 57 -- 5 Children would stand up and put their 10 fingers in the air. Then one child would sit and put up 7 fingers.  He had to stay in the 1's place (sitting) because he did not use all 10 fingers.

Art:  We started a Thanksgiving collage of fruits in a horn-o-plenty.

Writing:  We finished our Thanksgiving Word poems.

Science:  We made pictures of Galaxies with a moon, sun, constellation, and a planet.  We finished writing notes from books we had read about the moon.  We held gulf balls and walked around a light. Our heads represented earth, the light the sun, and the gulf balls the moon.  We watched how the sun hits the moon at different times.  Then we ate Oreo cookies and talked about the moon phases as we ate them.

Social Studies:  We talked about the election and voting and we voted for people in our state as well as nation.  We discussed how the people we elect help make laws for our government.  We have been writing down definitions and drawing pictures of these words.  We also reviewed the weather of different cities in each of the continents and tried to be a meteorologist and predict the weather for own city.  We started to look at pictures of different places in Africa and talk about the types of things we would see if we visited that continent.

Oct. 29th-Nov. 2

Halloween is always a fun week.  Wednesday was dedicated  to Halloween Projects.  We read Halloween stories and sang songs. We painted scarey faces with chalk and white paint and we did Halloween math.   We counted 100 pumpkin seeds each and then counted them by two's and then tens.  When we had them grouped in tens the children each got a skittel.  When they had 10 skittels they got a pumpkin marshmellow.  The pumpkin seed represented ones, the skittles represented tens, and the marsmellow represented 100.  We finished our odd and even work and are going to take our test on Monday.

We started to learn our November songs and poems that we use in our stations.  And we drew pictures of the beginning middel and end of our guided reading books.  On Thursday each student wrote their own summary using the pictures they drew.  They did not have quesitions to follow and they had to use their pictures to guide them.  I was impressed by the results and I see we still have things to learn.

We read a story on the moon and took notes.  Then we copied the notes into our moon journals.  On Friday we made a diagram of the moon.