We had another great week! This quarter is going by so quickly, I can hardly believe that we are beginning our second unit! On Thursday, we began our unit in Explorers. We will be studying different explorers that impacted the world until fall break!
Here is how our week went:
Read 4 Today and Write 4 Today: Our Read 4 Today was about ghost towns. We learned new vocabulary that went along with the passage. We also learned that ghost towns are in the present, but we can learn about the past when we visit or study them! Write 4 Today focused on how to capitalize the title of books and songs. We also looked at verbs and helping verbs as well as commas in a series. We also reviewed the homophones your and you're.
Spelling: We will have our spelling test on Wednesday! Keep practicing your words. Don't forget to visit Spelling City. The link is on the left of this blog!
Reading: In reading, we finished up our desert unit with a fun Reader's Theater about a coyote who learned a lesson the hard way! We also read another story about a sneaky desert animal.
Writing: In writing we wrote the ending to a story that we read in reading. The students read The Rattle Snake and the Mouse and wrote their own original ending.
Math: We started chapter 2 in math. We reviewed fact triangles and fact families. We are working on mastering our basic facts and using those facts to help us with harder problems. For example: we know 3+5=8 then we can do 3+25..... by adding 20 more to our original answer. This concept really helps when we begin to try and do mental math or math in our heads.
Unit Study: We finished up our desert unit with creating a fun book called A Walk in the Desert. The students were able to write what they knew and liked about the desert as well as illustrate them. We also began our Explorers unit. We set up scrapbook that the students will be making over the next 4 weeks and saw all of the cool explorers that we will be learning about!
Explorers will encompass all of reading, writing, and unit study for the next four weeks! It is guaranteed to be an exciting unit!
Kids, please leave a comment on the blog and be sure to answer the questions with your parents. I know that they love hearing about what we did in class!
Parents, you are welcome to comment as well!
Have a great rest of the weekend and I will see you in the morning!
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6 comments:
Hi Mrs. Sheber:
A city is bigger than a town because it has more people.
See you tommorrow!
Berkeley
What is an Explorer?
A person who travels the world and discovers new land.
What lesson did the coyote learn?
The coyote learned that he can be fooled by an animal that he thinks isn't that smart.
What is a helping verb? shall
What is a main verb? running
What are two things you will find in a ghost town? Things you can tie your horses on and old houses.
What is 14-6? 8
Then what is 84-6? 78
Which is bigger a city or a town? City
How do you know that? Because I've heard Cities are big and towns are small.
MITCHELL
Hi Mrs.Sheber!
14-6=8 and 84-6=78. Also, a city is bigger than a town. The reason why is because a city has more people,homes,stores,shops, and room. Thats why! Bye!
A city is bigger than a town. The city has more buildings and business.
Hello Mrs.Sheber,
A city is bigger than a town because cities have more people,buisness,buildings,and enough room. An explorer is someone who travels to different places.
See you later Mrs.Sheber!
Mina
Berkeley,
You are correct, a city does have more people than a town! See you tomorrow!
Mitchell,
You always impress me with your awesome answers to my questions! You rock! See you in the morning!
Lorelei,
Thanks for visiting the blog! As usual, your answers are right! See you tomorrow!
Kolten,
You are right! Thanks for visiting! I will see you in the morning!
Mina,
You too are correct! Have a great evening! See you in the morning!
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