{"id":663,"date":"2022-01-14T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/iblogdearbornschoolsorg2021\/?p=663"},"modified":"2022-01-14T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:50:28","slug":"exploration-of-the-week-of-01-10-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/iblogdearbornschoolsorg2021\/2022\/01\/14\/exploration-of-the-week-of-01-10-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploration of the week of 01\/10\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greetings, Friends & Families!<\/strong> <\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poem of the week<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All-day long the penguins play<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the cold Antarctic sea—-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

diving<\/p>\n\n\n\n

splashing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong> leaping<\/p>\n\n\n\n

dashing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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in slippery, flippery glee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While other birds chase blue-sky dreams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the sea to penguins sings——<\/p>\n\n\n\n

perhaps they aren’t birds at all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but fish with feet and wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong> ——–Maxwell Higgins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span><\/strong> What was happening? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, my explorers started their exploration of the letter J<\/strong>. For this purpose, they are ready to create their “mini J book”, therefore, they collected different images that start with the letter J<\/strong> and will glue them inside. They also finished their “I Can Write”<\/strong> packet about the letter of the week, the letter J. The explorers made a Jaguar out of construction papers that represented the letter J.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For their reading comprehension, the explorers were reading “The Homesick Penguin” <\/strong>book by “Ken Bowser”<\/strong>. We answered “wh” questions, such as, “What story did we read?”<\/strong> and, “who was the character in the story?”<\/strong>. We ended this week by reading “The Winter Wish”<\/strong> Book by “Gillian Shields and Rosie Reeve”<\/strong>. We have been also learning how to identify words and pictures when are presented by the staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, we started our core words with the word “GO”. Each one of the explorers has their own copy of the book “Go! Go! Go!”<\/strong>. They enjoyed reading the book with teacher and other staff, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A big shout out and thank you to Aya G., Elena A., and Sara S. from Ms. Polster a fourth-grade teacher for joining our classroom on Thursday for “Reading Buddies” program. They did an awesome and amazing job reading a story with our students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had an excited Wednesday when we talked and learned about our senses in science class. We learned that we have five senses: hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling, and tasting. We used our science book “I Use My Senses” <\/strong>by “Amy Bihn” <\/strong>and illustrated by “April Black”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week’s math was all about fractions.<\/strong> We learned how to fill in a whole and a half. While in Art, the explorers made a cup filled with cocoa and marshmallow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enjoy this week’s story:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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