This week we started the new year off with a writing activity about what we did for the new year holiday. We worked on sequencing our writing and included words such as first, next, then and last.
In reading our essential question was "What can we see in the sky?" We discussed what things we see in the daytime sky and the nighttime sky. We read a story called "Starry Night" about two girls, Josie and Ling and how they learned about the Big Dipper. We practiced doing some more sequencing in reading as well. We read the story "Mr. Putter and Tabby See the Stars" and wrote the order of events.
In math, we are continuing to practice adding two-digit numbers. This is a new concept for the students and several still need more practice. The key to remember is to line up the numbers properly and start adding from the ones place. Then the student must decide if they need to regroup (or carry). Then they continue to the tens place and so on. Next week we will be adding three and four two-digit numbers together.
We have started a new unit in science. Solids, Liquids and Gas. We began our unit by creating science journals and then comparing and contrasting two different solids. We wrote our observations down just like real scientists.
Our final writing activity this week was an opinion piece about whether or not we should get a penguin for a class pet. We read a few books about penguins to help us get some information about them and then the students needed to come up with four "good" reasons why they should get a penguin for a class pet.
Just for fun and to decorate our classroom we made some penguin windsocks.
Have a nice weekend. Stay warm!!
