Nov
Week 13
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Our class is working on something special for the Gratitude Feast on Thursday the 21st. The 3rd graders created a poem together about being thankful. The 1st and 2nd graders are teamed up in pairs of 2, most groups containing one 2nd grader, one 1st grader. Each group will draw a visual to each line of the poem. On Thursday, the 3rd graders will read the poem. the 1st and 2nd grade pairs will sit with their 3rd grade buddy and hold up their visual as each line is read. We will finish up the visuals and practice more this coming week to be ready on Thursday.
I will be making permission slips for the Nutcracker Ballet field trip, December 9th, this week. I will be sending them out Wednesday. If you can have them back ASAP, that would be fantastic. All permission slips MUST be in 24 hours before the field trip. Please do not forget to submit your child’s 2 dollar fee for the ballet through the payment link on the right hand side of this blog. I have heard from one parent so far on submission, so please don’t forget to email me or leave me a comment on the blog that you completed the payment. That way I can mark your child off on my check off list 🙂
This soon to be Friday is our Thanksgiving party. In the morning we talk about the history of Thanksgiving. Since we don’t have studio this Friday, we will do recess first and then lunch, like we do the rest of the week. By the time the kids get cleaned up it will be around 12:40pm. I need a few more helpers for Friday. If you are coming to help, please be at our classroom at 12:30pm. After they get cleaned up, I’ll sit them down and explain each of the crafts. They are then free to choose until 2:30pm.
Group lessons this week:
Level 1s: Intro to point of a line (geometry)
Level 2s: Interior and exterior angles (geometry), Marshmallow angle review
Level 3s: Features of a triangle (geometry), Arrays of multiplication with fruit loops
Open lessons: fractions equivalence with pizza visuals, how to read a ruler to whole inch, half an inch, 1/4 an inch
In cultural:
History:
Level 1s: BC and AD timeline. Introduction to a century with golden bead
Level 2s: Formation of a star
Level 3s: Silurian Period
Zoology:
Level 1s: Fish report
Level 2s: Shrews and hedge hogs
Level 3s: Roundworms
Geography:
Level 1s: 3D Earth to 2D using a grapefruit
Level 2s: Faults
Level 3s: Weather reader’s theatre
Botany:
Level 1s: Land and water food chain paper model
Level 2s: Pinnate margins
Level 3s: Position of the calyx
Friday: Studio, Library, Great Barrier Reef animals and learning watercolor painting
Home projects are due Monday and this coming week!
Have a great (wintery) weekend!
Cheers!
Ms. K