Week 13 of school already! Wow, time has been flying by!
Here’s a look at what we did this week:
Writing – Now that we are all done with our personal
narratives, we are focusing on grammar for a little while again. Students took
a pretest on Unit 2 for grammar and most did pretty well! This week they
learned how to distinguish between common nouns and proper nouns. We also spent
Veteran’s Day writing thank you letters to Veterans.
Science – In science this week, we compared the amount of
time it takes each planet to orbit the Sun. In order for student to be able to
visualize the different orbits, we took a trip to the gym and had 9 students
represent the Sun and the 8 planets. They each stepped at the same time and we
were able to see which planets take the shortest amount of time to orbit the
sun, and which take the longest.
Social Studies – Continuing on in our Unit about the start
of America, we learned how communities started to become cities. Students
learned vocabulary words such as industry, migration, immigrant, and
discrimination. They also put on little skits/story lines about what life was
like in the 1800s.
Religion – Jesus brings the good news! This week we focused
on Jesus bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. We also learned about
people who became disciples of Jesus and discussed what words describe a good
disciple.
Math – Math this week switched from addition to subtraction.
Students are learning new strategies to understand why we sometimes have to
borrow when we are subtracting multiple digit numbers. We learned all about how
place value factors into subtracting, but we are also trying to focus on the
standard algorithm so students are not getting confused (like they did with
addition!).
Reminders:
- No school tomorrow
- Pep rally tonight
- Scholastic book fair is next
week!
Have a great weekend!
- Miss Rizzo
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