General News
Believe it or not, there is no new news! We have really good pictures this week – check them out below! And don’t forget to stay on top of your at-home research for your human body systems project! (We gave Gammas the option to eat in the classroom on Thursday if they wanted to watch their body system once at school to get ready for the at-home work! Six Gammas took us up on the offer—Yippee!)
ELA Update
We started our ELA this week with book club meetings. These are not generated by genre this time around since book selection is “free range.” We let the popsicle sticks decide book clubs on Mondays and kiddos got a chance to talk about their book, hear plots of many different books, and maybe even get inspired to choose their next read based on a classmate’s review! On Tuesday and Wednesday we started mapping out our scripts and drafting them in our notebooks. They are short scenes, running about 2 minutes long, and are mostly in the genre of comedy (we started writing them on April 1st and humor was in the air 🙂). On Thursday we started typing and publishing them and then sketching out our characters for creating Puppet Pal movies next week!
Math Update
Math has been lots of fun! Both classes invented robots using specified criteria for area/perimeter for the head, arms, legs and body. They came out absolutely adorable! (AND gave us lots of practice applying the skills of determining area/perimeter through application! Yay!) Year 1 kids continued practicing this skill all week while Year 2 kids learned how to apply the formula to find the volume of rectangular prisms. We also explored how to find the volume of irregular figures by counting “layers.” At week’s end, we completed a scavenger hunt set in Mexico! Viva la Math!
Theme Update
This week we learned about all things nervous system and the brain! On Monday we started out doing some reading about the five sense organs and how they communicate with the brain and nervous system. We went outside afterwards to use our five senses on a nature scavenger hunt. On Tuesday and Wednesday we delved further into the brain by learning some new vocabulary words like neuron, cerebellum, cerebrum, and more! We crafted some super neat brain hats so that we could visualize where all of this important information is being processed! On Thursday we created flip books to aid us in a task card scavenger hunt around the classroom to synthesize the information we learned this week!
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