Good Morning,
We have had a great week! It was nice to once again have a full unit erupted week of learning. We have started our Force and Motion Unit. The first day the students explored a variety of supplies and tried to make objects move along, tracks, tubes, and ramps. Yesterday, the students did an observation walk and looked for the forces of pushing and pulling being used.
In math, the 1st and 2nd graders have both started geometry units. The first graders have been learning shape vocabulary and characteristics of rectangles, circles, triangles, hexagons, and rhombi. They had also been using pattern blocks to compose and decompose shapes. The second graders have been focusing on rectangles as well.
This week's book for the Global Read A Loud was Ish. Ish is a story about a boy who looses his belief in his artistic abilities. He was an avid painter and felt he should stop because he didn't feel his work was good enough. His younger sister challenges him on this belief and the child eventually starts painting all kinds of Ish-paintings. The students all created their own Ish-Painting. You can find them in the hallway by our classroom door.
Here is this week's movie:
Notes:
*Your child has their Weekly News in their backpack. Please take a look and respond.
*If you look at our classroom schedule, you will see that we don't have Daily 5 (reading groups) on this day. I use Thursday afternoons to work on a variety of literature projects. Since we don't meet, the kids reading homework will always be book of choices on that night. This means they won't have new books or assignments from their reading group book(s).
We do have reading on Friday's. I will start sending the homework bags home on the weekends. This way your child will have books they can read over the weekend. PLEASE, make sure all of the books and the bag come back on Monday. I truly appreciate your help in keeping your children organized with this.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Peace,
Tommy
