Week of Oct. 7

     I can't believe it is already October.  We have been working hard and have settled in to our classroom routine.  This month we will be having fun doing different activities with a Halloween theme.

     This month we will continue to talk about Mary and practice saying the Hail Mary.  This week we will also talk about John the Baptist, how Jesus shares God's love with others, and the story of Zacchaeus.  We will be reading stories from the Bible.

     In Superkids, we are working on Unit 2 and th and wh words.  We are also talking about question words, writing and answering questions.  The students had fun getting up and doing basketball words to help practice spelling our spelling words (they pretend to dribble a basketball while spelling the word and then shoot the basketball as they say what word was spelled).  We will learn some other fun ways to move and spell throughout the year.  This week we will also be talking about characters and will be reading another story in our readers called "What a Pet!"  Remember you can also have your child practice reading the stories at home through the parent portal.

     In math this week, we will continue working on our addition double facts, looking for patterns in story problems, working with pattern blocks to cover and make designs, ordering numbers to 20, adding 1 to a number, and writing subtraction number sentences.  Students will use wrap-ups to help practice double facts and will also be acting out some, some went away story problems.

     For science this week we will begin looking at what the Earth looked like during the time of the dinosaurs as well as different kinds of landforms.  We will be using different videos and Google Earth to help look at these things.  Students will recreate what the Earth looked like during the times of the dinosaurs as well as create a map of the United States showing the different landforms that we have.
     Last week students chose they dinosaur that they will be researching for our dinosaur book that we will be writing and having published at the end of our Dinosaur Unit.  This week we will continue to work on researching our dinosaurs.

     Our innovation lab this week will have the students investigating different materials that they will later use to construct a sailboat to float on water and carry weights.  We will be working on these over several lab periods and I am excited to see what the students will come up with for their sailboats.