Here's the latest from our classroom
Last Friday we had an Art Docent Lesson. Thank you to Lisa Purdon and Christina Elin, Jolene Strait, Debbie Spoto, and Kim Foster.
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| Students learned about Rousseau and created oil pastel ecosystem drawings on black construction paper. |
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| Mr. Ciraulo worked with students on problem solving. We examined and critiqued a student example, learning from it. Students will redo the problem, this time using much of what we learned. |
Math
- Continued working with decimals--using base 10 blocks to model ones/tenths/hundreths, practicing correct notation, comparing/ordering decimals, estimating with decimals, adding/subtracting decimals, and working with decimals in money
Reading
- Continued our focus on main idea, using a picture book, Brave Irene, and continued our schema (background knowledge) focus by listening to a short book on tape. We'll follow up next week by revising our schema when students can actually see the pictures in the book.
- Read with our second grade reading buddies in Miss Evanger's class
Writing
- Learned about making revisions sooner this time than in our first unit--using what we know now about great personal narrative writing. Also talked about setting a balance between external (things you can see and hear) and internal factors (thoughts, feelings, emotions inside you) in our stories
- Completed our fourth grade personal narrative fall writing prompt--a chance for us to see growth in students' writing
- Bonus. Have your student write "pollution" on a sticky note or paper and give it to me by Monday 11/7 for 10 Grizzly bucks!
Science
- We've read about terrestrial animals, how seeds germinate, and three common sources of pollution in ecosystems--acid rain, road salt, and fertilizer.
- Students began designing their group's pollution experiment on either salt, vinegar (acid rain), or fertilizer
- SOAR (in-class field trip) brought a couple birds of prey and talked with students about food webs. It was a high interest, great tie in with our ecosystems studies. Thank you for funding this!
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| SOAR presentation right before the birds came out! |
