Monday November 26, 2018

Good morning! I hope everyone enjoyed their time off however it was spent 🙂

We are collecting for the Mitten Tree again this year. New hats, gloves, mittens, scarves, socks are welcome for donation to a worthy community group.

We’re back to a full week and moustache day is Friday.

Spelling words this week focus on what is called diagraphs (ch, sh, th, wh) letters that blend together to make a new sound. chill, chase, sheep, think, while. The Dolch reading words are: where, when, thank, then, she.

This is our last week for a bit on informational reading and writing. We continue to read articles and focus on the main ideas of the paragraphs by using the facts. We’ll finish up our paragraph writing about owls. Each student has their own facts they chose that were interesting to them. We’re also learning to use transitions between sentences to make our writing flow better.

Math this week and next focus’ on understanding place value units of 1,10, and 100. Many different counting activities using our meter sticks, tape measures, stick bundles, and even the clock.

Science will involve viewing and sorting different forms of water in liquid and solid form (snow, hail, sleet, rain, etc.)  This leads into where water is found on Earth.

Social Studies will begin a few lessons on the positive and negative consequences of changing the environment of a community. We use a community called Treeville that stands in the place of a real community. I always bring up how Dearborn’s community was changed when Fairlane Mall was built. It was a huge wetland that was the “front yard” of Henry Ford’s home “Fairlane”. It was filled in to make the mall. Much community protest for and against this project way back when it happened.

Enjoy your week!

 

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