Where does the time go? I can't believe it will be March by the end of the week!
Upcoming this week:
March 1st- (Thursday) Spring Pictures
March 2nd- Encore practice (8:10-8:45), Dr. Seuss activities in our classroom
Math- Last week we discussed 2-D and 3-D shapes. We spent a lot of time talking about what a vertex (corner), an edge, and a face (sides) were. The kids even categorized the different shapes and had a chance to build using marshmallows for the vertices and toothpicks for the edges. This week we will focus on lines, line segments, rays, and angles. We will take our geometry test on Thursday and take some time to make geobots (robots made from geometric shapes).
March 1st- (Thursday) Spring Pictures
March 2nd- Encore practice (8:10-8:45), Dr. Seuss activities in our classroom
Math- Last week we discussed 2-D and 3-D shapes. We spent a lot of time talking about what a vertex (corner), an edge, and a face (sides) were. The kids even categorized the different shapes and had a chance to build using marshmallows for the vertices and toothpicks for the edges. This week we will focus on lines, line segments, rays, and angles. We will take our geometry test on Thursday and take some time to make geobots (robots made from geometric shapes).
Reading-
This week we will read
Tornado
Alert
by
Franklyn M. Branley. This is a nonfiction piece about the dangers and
destruction that comes with tornado season. The students are always amazed to learn
that Iowa is part of the “Tornado Alley,” and how they can be catastrophic.
Students will discuss the main ideas and supporting details of the story.
Text Talk- This week we will use
The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down
again. Our
text talk words will be different from our reading vocabulary words. So
the kids will get a double dose of vocabulary from this text. Our text
talk words are:
contrary, glide, ignored, sternly, innovative, and rivals.
Science- The students are finishing up talking about rocks and minerals. The study guide and test for this may or may not be given out this week. I will keep you posted, a lot depends on the rate of evaporation.
Writing- We will continue our work in our ABC books. Our reports have been written after creating a t-chart and transferring it to number notes. Students thought taking the t-chart to number notes was far more complicated than taking the number notes to a 4 paragraph report! :) We will continue to work with transition words as I did not require them in our non-fiction report. During our technology time for the next couple weeks students will be typing reports and creating a 2 slide PowerPoint presentation, which will be shared at conferences.
Upcoming this month:
3/13 Encore performs- 7:00 p.m. Marion High School
3/14 1:30 Dismissal
3/20 Conferences 4-8 p.m.
3/22 1:30 Dismissal, Conferences 2-6 p.m.
3/23-3/30 No School- Spring Break
4/2- Classes back in session :)
Have a great week!
Mrs. Jodie Yuska
Science- The students are finishing up talking about rocks and minerals. The study guide and test for this may or may not be given out this week. I will keep you posted, a lot depends on the rate of evaporation.
Writing- We will continue our work in our ABC books. Our reports have been written after creating a t-chart and transferring it to number notes. Students thought taking the t-chart to number notes was far more complicated than taking the number notes to a 4 paragraph report! :) We will continue to work with transition words as I did not require them in our non-fiction report. During our technology time for the next couple weeks students will be typing reports and creating a 2 slide PowerPoint presentation, which will be shared at conferences.
Upcoming this month:
3/13 Encore performs- 7:00 p.m. Marion High School
3/14 1:30 Dismissal
3/20 Conferences 4-8 p.m.
3/22 1:30 Dismissal, Conferences 2-6 p.m.
3/23-3/30 No School- Spring Break
4/2- Classes back in session :)
Have a great week!
Mrs. Jodie Yuska
