This week we celebrated our first "Lunch with the Teacher." Congrats to the September winners: the Erasers. This month's groups look like this:
This week in reading, we read stories about caring for animals. We read about how people help whales that are stranded on the beach. We also read about a boy named Jack who takes care of his horse, Pepper. We practiced writing reading responses and finding key details in the photos and captions.
We finished up our first narrative story in writing. The students were each given a chance in our Writers Chair to share their story. Next week, we will be having a "visitor" and writing letters to him.
In math, we practiced finding even and odd numbers and learned about arrays. We used repeated addition to solve problems with arrays.
To further explain landforms and how they are formed on the Earth, we did a fun experiment with graham crackers and cool whip. The graham crackers represented the plates in the Earth and the cool whip the mantle. We moved the crackers around to show what effects it has on the Earth. Of course, as a special treat, we got to eat the leftovers. (Not the ones we used in our experiment.)
 |
| A mountain is formed on the crust |
