October 17 - 21 (Week 9)

Week 9 (October 17 – 21)

Soil

The kids have been reading bout the Earth’s different layers of soil, how soil is made, and the amount of time it take to create just an inch of soil. We’ve learned that soil creation is a slow process but it always taking place, even when we can’t see. We’ve also been looking at the different types of soil, their texture, size, and smell.

Earth’s Processes

We learned that Earth had some slow process through working with soil. We also learned that Earth had some fast processes that changed its environment. We’ve been looking a erosion, weather, and deposition. We’ve also been looking at how these factors affect the soil, rocks, and the environment. With the help of Mrs. Alexander, we are able to do a hand’s on activity to see what weathering and deposition looks like on a smaller scale!

Time

Time…well we need more time to understand time!! Time is such a hard concept for the kids to understand. Many of them are able to tell time to the hour and half hour. We’re still working on understanding the analog clock, but with some practice at school and at home, I know that the kids master it! 

Our Garden

Our kidos really have some "green thumbs"! Our garden is sprouting beautifully!!! 

October 3 - 15 (Week 7 -8)

Week 7 – 8 (October 3 – 14)

Math

Decomposing and understanding what multiplication is and the properties that go along with it, has been our main focus these past two weeks. We are now beginning to work on finding missing factors and solving for unknown factors. We will eventually begin working with multiplication fluency. I want to make sure that the kids have a firm grasp on what multiplication truly is before we begin working on memorization and algorithms.

What’s A Good Reader?

As I conference with the student about their reading, they are beginning to get a better understanding of who they are as a reader. We’ve been discussing what a good reader does, some goals they have for reading, and what they would like to do as readers that others are doing as readers. We’ve also listened to a secret reader to see what it is that they are doing really well as a reader and also to discuss their miscues. This allows students to hear and understand what fluency sounds like and also for them to get some new ideas for books they’d like to read.

Diamond Dell

The kids had a blast and panned for lots of cool minerals!

Lunch outside

With such nice weather, we’ve been enjoying our lunch outside, cleaning up our playground, and having a little extra recess!!!