We welcomed Mrs. Rice back today with a baby shower. We played a game (where we needed to draw a baby on our heads), ate "baby" food (baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, small cookies, and milk), and showered her with gifts! It was a fun surprise! :)
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Thank you so much for all your donations and your participation in our Superbowl Learning Party! The kids had a great time and it was nice to see everyone! Here are a few pictures of us in action.
We are little over a week into our history of Michigan unit and we are having fun discovering the past. So far we have learned:
We will be writing our sequential and comparative chapters this week. When we write sequentially, we are writing going to either tell the reader how to do something in order (how to kick the ball, how to make a pizza) or tell the reader how something occurred/ occurs (life cycles, timeline). To plan for this chapter we will use a flowchart, numbering each section. While writing this chapter, it will be important for us to use transition words like: first, next, then.
While writing our comparative chapter, we will be comparing two things about our topic. We could choose to compare two athletes or positions on a sports team, two video games, or various other things. To plan for this chapter we will use a Venn-diagram. While writing this chapter we will be sure to use words like: in contrast, similarly, likewise, etc. Calling all dads, grandpas, and uncles... We are looking for male examples to come and be apart of our Super Bowl learning party! On Thursday, January 30 from 2:30-3:30 we will be solving football time problems, reading about famous football players, finding prefixes and suffixes for football words, and enjoying some snacks. We would love for you to join us! Please RSVP to Mrs. Hultink at your nearest convenience!
Also, we are looking for the following donations: chips, salsa, cheese dip, carrots, brownies, juice boxes, paper plates, and napkins. Let Mrs. Hultink know if you would be able to donate any of these things. We will be wrapping up our unit on measurement by learning how we can put data into graphs to help us read/understand information quickly. We will be focusing on pictographs, plot graphs, and bar graphs. Students will learn how to read, create, and answer questions using these graphs. Normally this is math topic that students really enjoy and pick up quite quickly. When you are reading your favorite magazine or newspaper and notice a graph, take a moment to point it out to your child.
This week we will still be focusing on the ee and ea patterns. However, we are going to begin to notice how sometimes the ee and ea patterns will make the short e sound. For example, the word bread has the long e pattern of ea. However, we pronounce it with the short e sound. We will be looking at words with this very tricky pattern this week!
Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by writing all of your spelling words in crayon or pen. Write all the consonants in blue and all the vowels in red. The students did such a good job today on their 3 Fires projects! They presented in groups of 3 and took notes on each other's presentations! Here are some pics! We started our history unit today! We learned that history is the study of the past, people who study the past are called historians. Historians use primary and secondary sources to help learn about the past. Primary sources are pieces of evidence from the actual event (photographs, diary entries, and artifacts). Secondary sources are items made to learn about an event after if has occurred (encyclopedias, History Channel, and biographies).
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