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| After reading The Three Little Pigs students began constructing model houses using bricks, sticks, and straw. The houses need to resist wind. |
I hope you had a good weekend, here's the info for the week:
Athletic Shoes
Thank you so much for sending in athletic shoes when your child wears snow boots or rain boots to school. It really helps, last week was a lot smoother for our gym instructor Ms. Lewit.
Photo Gallery
There are lots of new photos in our classroom photo gallery this week! They are mostly of our current engineering unit on structure and function.
Curriculum Overview
Science - As I wrote about last week, after a reading Jack and the Beanstalk students built a model of beanstalk that can stand on it’s own. Then after reading The Three Little Pigs students used different materials to build a model of a house that can withstand wind. This week we will evaluate the houses we built by exposing them to a high-powered fan. We will also design and use our own paintbrush.
Math - In the photo gallery you can see the work we did last week finding different ways to divide hexagons into different shapes. This week we will work on breaking apart numbers to see addition and subtraction facts. We will also explore weight and capacity.
Literacy - We have been reading different versions of the well-known Gingerbread Man story. We will be studying the similarities and differences between the different versions. Ask your child about books like The Gingerbread Girl, The Gingerbread Baby, and The Gingerbread Cowboy. We will also be reading some books covering different winter holidays.
Writing - Students will be writing about the different experiences they have had with our Project Lead The Way unit on structure and function. They will be sketching and writing about the beanstalk they build, as well as the house they construct.
Word Study - Identifying the beginning and ending sounds of words. For example ‘dog’ begins with a /d/ and ends with a /g/.
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