Here’s our learning for the week!
Writing/Science: We are going to continue with scientific writing and STEM projects. This week’s challenge is to create a catapult using craft sticks, plastic spoons, and pompoms. I was truly amazed at the creativity and engagement that your children showed last week in creating vehicles to transport rocks. I will send it home tomorrow so you can appreciate the same! Reading: We will continue to focus on ‘summarizing’ and synthesizing’ as skills to help in comprehension. I will be modeling the same using texts from ‘Benchmark’ our reading program. Math: We will continue with measurement. Students are pretty adept at measuring using centimeters and inches. We will be doing a fun activity of measuring a gummy worm, stretching it out and then measuring the difference. Naturally, we will end by eating it! Thanks and stay warm!
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Here's our learning for the week:
Writing/Science: We will be integrating writing and science as the students work on scientific writing by doing a STEM project. The goal with the latter is to build something that will help carry 5 rocks by either pushing or pulling. This aligns with our science standards of forces and motion. Thank you in advance for sending the materials for the same. Our focus in writing will be to use the data from the experiment and writing it out as lab reports. Reading: I will again be integrating science and reading by using non fiction passages on motion, gravity, pushes and pulls to check for comprehension in reading. Our focus on poems last week was very interesting as the kids learned the importance of rhymes, rhythm and repetition in poems. The poems that they created were delightful! I will again revisit poems at a later date. Math: We have started the unit on measurement and did many hand-on activities, the first being creating rulers using inch cubes and centimeter cubes. Our standard not only focuses on measuring using centimeters, inches, yardsticks and meter sticks, but also measuring 2 objects of different lengths. I am hoping that the students will understand that a ruler is similar to an open number line in which case, it becomes easy to measure and compare different lengths. If possible, please have them practice at home by not only having the object placed at zero, but different starting points. |