Week of October 6th

A photo slideshow by Smilebox

On Tuesday we had Hands on Nature.  We learned about soil.  We learned that it is made up of air, water, organic materials and rocks & minerals.  Students had the opportunity to examine worms.  They got to dissect soil and talk about the 4 elements that are found in the soil.  They then created a picture of the layers of soil and used mud like water colors to paint it.

In math we have been looking at fact families.  These are equations made up of 2 addition facts with all 3 of the numbers and 2 subtraction facts.  We learned that there was an exception though.  Double facts only have 2 equations in their fact family.

In Fundations we have started learning about digraphs.  Digraphs are 2 letters that make one sound.  They are sh, ch, th, wh and ck.  We also learned 4 new trick words.

In Reader's Workshop we talked about how good readers infer (use their schema, pictures and other words read to help them know what a word means) and how they use mental images to picture what they are reading or is being read to them.

Have a wonderful weekend,
Nancy