Monday, March 30th, 2009

We had a great Monday! In the morning, our question of the day was: How do you feel when you see an insect? We learned that 6 of our friends feel scared, 31 of our friends feel excited, and 1 friend felt sad. We showed this by writing the following mathematical sentences: 1 < 6, and 6 < 31.

We read our poems for the week: some of our friends read the poem, "Rain", which was about things that you can do in the rain, while other friends read "El viento", and practiced words like "hojitas y semillitas". During the daily 5, our friends learned their new word study words for the week, and practiced saying the words and putting them into their groups.

In the afternoon, we did a read aloud called New Plants, and learned about how seeds travel. We learned that seeds can travel in many different ways--on our clothes and sneakers, on our pets' fur, by the wind, and by animals. We learned that this is how weeds grow. We then observed our plants, recording our observations, and labeling the parts of the plant on our diagrams--leaves, stems, buds, and flowers.

In math today, the green gators practiced solving word problems with addition, and showing our work using the white boards. We then completed an assessment about which group has more, and how many more.

We finished our day reading our Weekly Reader in Spanish, learning about Insects and what makes an insect--we learned that insects have three major parts to their body, they have 6 legs, and they have 2 antenna. We then did an activity with the Weekly Reader, drawing an insect of our own, and completing drawings of other insects that were missing legs. We had to figure out how many were missing, and how many we needed to draw to have a total of 6 legs. They did a great job with this activity!