We will also be talking about the Presidential Inauguration this week and read through our Scholastic News dealing with the Inauguration. The students will also be able to see some short videos again through our Scholastic News digital issues.
In Superkids, students began learning about CVVC (consonant, vowel, vowel, consonant) words. We learned the rule for when two vowels are together that the first one is long and says it's name and the second one is silent. I also taught them the saying to help them remember the rule, "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." We also reviewed the other rules that we have been learning.
This week, students will continue practicing decoding and encoding CVVC words. We will also sequence events from the story "The Straw Horse" that we read in our readers. Students will also be working on learning about adjectives and using adjectives to help plan a story character. We will be using our story characters to write a problem/solution story. We will also read a play in class titled, "The Contest."
In math, we will be working on estimating and measuring area using nonstandard units and doubles plus one facts. We will be using our linking cubes to help in learning these facts.
In Science this week we will be continuing to talk about Penguins. At the end of last week, we once again broke away from our science books so that we could start learning about Penguins. Students began by telling what they already know about penguins and putting this information up on a giant penguin that I drew. Then they broke up into groups to look through some penguin books to find out some new information that they did not know about penguins already. The students wrote down what they found and added it to another giant penguin that lists all of the new information. The kids were super excited.
This week we will begin our continuation of penguins by doing a science experiment. We will talk about how penguins and other polar animals keep warm. Then students will explore how blubber helps to keep penguins warm by sticking their hand in a blubber glove and then putting it into ice cold water. Throughout the week we will also be doing various other hands on activities such as measuring our heights and comparing them to the heights of different penguins and exploring how penguins move and how they keep their eggs warm.
Looking ahead:
- Magnets
- Contractions and Compound Words
- Solar System
- Adding two digit numbers without regrouping
- 100th Day
- Groundhog's Day
- Communities Inquiry Unit
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