Monday, November 17th 2008

Today was a busy day! We started off our day cutting out our words for word study. Our question of the day was, Do you like Winter? We learned the Spanish word for winter is "invierno", and that all of our friends like winter. In the morning we did our daily five routines while our teachers met with word study groups to introduce students to their new words. We also read a new poem. Some students read a poem called Squirrel, Squirrel, Shake Your Bushy Tail, and some friends read Tengo, Tengo, Tengo. Ask your child which poem they read and what the poem was about. We also read our non-fiction book about Peru and learned that they have a Festival of the Sun, that lasts a week. During Math, the green gators practiced counting quickly and had choice time to practice counting dots, playing the game compare dots, or working on their counting books. The red rhinos has a number talk around a story problem and then they practiced counting dots quickly and efficiently by playing quick images. Ask your child to share with you some of the strategies they have learned to work with numbers efficiently. In social studies, students talked about how many family members they had and learned how to name members of their
family in Spanish. In science students were given the challenge to balance their pencil on the edge of a Popsicle stick. This is an experiment that we will continue working on tomorrow.