This is a great thing to practice when reading or discussing books with your children. Sometimes they are telling events and details instead of describing the character so we are working on clearing up that confusion.
We are so excited for author Mac Barnett to visit Scottish Corners next Monday! We have been discussing character traits of the different characters in his books this past week. Students worked together to create posters about the characters in his books. We will be hanging this up for him to see next week!
This is a great thing to practice when reading or discussing books with your children. Sometimes they are telling events and details instead of describing the character so we are working on clearing up that confusion.
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Last week we kicked off our unit on looking at the long vowel - consonant - silent e pattern (ex: came, ride, care, cube). We talked about how the vowel sound changes when the silent e is added. The silent E jumps over the consonant and makes the vowel say its long sound (letter name). The kids immediately started noticing words that have a silent e on the end that don't follow the pattern (ex: strange, sore, before, are) so we are now collect words that fit and do not fit the pattern.
While learning about polar bears and penguins we learned that both animals have blubber as an adaption to help them stay warm in such frigid temperatures. To help us better understand this we stuck our hands in ice cold water for a few seconds. Then we placed our hands in a "blubber" glove (ziplock bag with tons of Crisco - don't worry their hands didn't touch the crisco!) and put it in ice cold water. The kids were able to feel the difference the layer of "blubber" makes!
Lots and Lots and Lots of fun centered around reading is happening right now!
March Book Madness - We are participating with other classrooms around the nation in a bracket style competition between books published in 2014 and books that were published before 2014. Each week we will be voting between books and then entering our winners. Then the new bracket will roll out and we will continue voting! We can't wait to see who wins the 2015 "Road To Bookville" :) Through this we are getting to experience many new stories! If you would like to check out more about this please head to: http://marchbookmadness.weebly.com/ Read Across America - Next week we will be celebrating Read Across America week. Our theme is "Feeding Our Minds While Feeding Others". We will be feeding our minds through reading and then feeding others through our food drive. More information has been emailed to you and is coming home today in a handout. Mac Barnett - Author Mac Barnett is coming to SCE on March 9th and we are preparing for his arrival through celebrating his books throughout Read Across America. He also has a book that is part of the March Book Madness! We continued to practice our understanding of comparing and understanding relationships between numbers 0-120 by playing Mystery Number using an open number line. W drew an empty number line and then placed a mystery mark where our number would be on that number line. Then a partner would make guesses as to what the mystery number was and their guesses were marked according to where they were located on the number line compared to where the mystery number was located. Students then used their incorrect guesses to help them make more educated guesses as to what the mystery number was.
This is a great game to play at home! We have been enjoying books involving fictional penguin characters like Tacky and Sergio and identifying the problems and solutions in the stories. We are now moving towards being able to identify similarities and differences between the two books. Students worked with partners to complete Venn Diagrams to show their understanding of comparing and contrasting stories.
Students played the game "Finding Neighbors" this week to help develop their understanding of tens and ones place value as well as the relationship between numbers on a 99 chart (this chart goes 0-99). Students physically built a number they spun on a spinner using base ten blocks so they could manipulate the number (above picture shows 74). They then had to find the space that number belongs in on the 99 chart using their knowledge of tens and ones place value. Then they had to find that number's "neighbors" on the 99 chart - the number to the right (+1), the number to the left (-1), the number below (+10), and the number above (-10). This helps them start to develop the ability to mentally add and subtract by one and multiples of ten.
My heart has been melting as I have been working with the kids this week on constructing their Kindness Cards for Valentine's Day! They are being so thoughtful about each individual and selecting a compliment that goes with each child in the class. We brainstormed a list of compliments they could write to each other to help them get their thinking started about what they could write.
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