October 17

Science Friday

Good afternoon parents! Happy Friday!

This week we did a lot of learning we would like to share with you.

Reading: This week at Daily 5 we practiced a new strategy! We learned about the retelling rope. When we retell a story we should include the characters, setting and problem. We are going to learn the rest of the retelling rope next week. We all got new books and new strategies to help us become better readers.

Writing: In writing this week we wrote new stories. We wrote stories that included characters, setting, problems and solution. We got to make up stories called realistic fiction stories. The characters are pretend but the problems are real. Our stories were about fall and Halloween.

Math: This week in math we spent a lot of time practicing doubles plus one and doubles minus one. We learned about writing numbers into expanded form. We also learned how to add two digit numbers using the tens and the ones.

Science: Science was so fun! We learned about mixtures. Mixtures are objects mixed together but we can separate the materials. When you cannot separate the materials it is called a solution. We made a mystery liquid with water and white crystals. We used our senses to observe the liquid and came to the conclusion that the liquid was Kool-aid. We knew Kool-aid was a solution because we couldn’t take the sugar back out. Here are pictures of us creating and observing our mystery liquid!