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.