Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Today was a busy day! In the morning, our question of the day was; Have you ever planted a seed before? We learned that 29 of our friends have planted seeds, while 8 of our friends have not. We wrote a mathematical sentence to show this: 29 > 8. During reading workshop, we practiced visualizing when reading non-fiction. The green gators practiced visualizing with their book about sharks, and drew a picture when they first started reading, and drew another one after they had learned more information about sharks. The red rhinos continued reading about animals that hibernate and practiced drawing what they visualized in their heads.

During Social Studies today, some of the friends learned the difference between maps and globes, and the word for round (redondo), and flat (plano). We looked at a map legend, and talked about teh different symbols that stand for different places on the map, including trees (el parque), and different buildings to show stores (tiendas) the school (escuela), houses (casas), and recyclying center (centro de reciclaje). We then practiced locating different places on a map, and put our labels on our maps.

In Science today, we learned about seeds, and planted our very own Brassica seeds. We learned that plants need water, sunlight and soil to grow, and we are very excited to see what will happen to our seeds over the weekend. We filled out our calendar to record our observations of our plants, and wrote in our calendars today "Planted our brassica seeds".

Ask your child what they enjoyed the most today!