The students traced their hands to create the rainbow and wrote one reason why they are special on the gold coins. It looks great!
This week we started a new Reading theme about that correlates directly to our Social Studies unit about money. We learned some new vocabulary words. Ask your child to explain how interest works... We read a folktale called Seeds of Fortune. Then we started to discuss cause and effect. The brothers in the book became lazy and spent all of their money. The effect was that they ran out.
In Math this week, we practiced measuring. We also started a Table of Equivalent Measures. The students will be expected to know how many feet are in a yard...how many inches are in a foot and how many inches are in a yard. They also should know how many centimeters are in a meter and decimeter. We also begun to explore perimeter.
We had some fun in writing this week. We started our opinion/persuasion writing. To practice opinion writing we had to decide which Hershey Kiss was our favorite. We all got to try four different kinds of kisses and wrote our opinion and why one was the best. The overall winner was Caramel.
Then for persuasive writing, we read a book called I Wanna Iguana. In this book, the boy, Alex, tries to persuade his mother through letters that he should get an iguana for a pet. We took this idea and the students wrote letter to their parents asking for various pets. Some of the pets included a snake, an elephant, guinea pigs, a chinchilla and a lot of hamsters. You will get to see these at Best of Heights Night.
In Social Studies, in keeping with the money theme, we began discussing money and what a good shopper looks like. We have talked about wants vs. needs. In Science, we once again had some fun with our liquids. We had "Drop Races." Then we predicted which of the liquids would mix with water. The students were surprised to see that oil and water did not mix.
Finally, we said goodbye this week to our wonderful classroom helper, Mrs. Moran. We had a little surprise party for her this week. We are so sad that she is leaving our classroom but are elated that she will now be our Art Teacher. We wish her the very best and know she will do a fabulous job!!!
