Happy Thanksgiving Week Everyone!
This week is a rather short week. We are dreaming of turkeys and pumpkins here in room 212. Due to the shortened week, there will be NO reading log or spelling words. Use this time to work on those lead measures that our students have set for themselves.
Tomorrow we also will be having a mini-Thanksgiving celebration. Students will get to have pumpkin pie and whipped cream. They also will be allowed to bring in 1 junkie snack and a beverage to this celebration. Please do not sent your child with pop/soda as their beverage.
Listed below is the content we are working on this week:
Reading- Describing characters’ traits, motivations, and feelings and how they effect the story. We also are continuing our dive into fables and discussing morals/lessons that they teach us.
Writing- Beginning to brainstorm potential characters and morals for our own fables.
Math- Developing estimation strategies by reasoning about the weight in kilograms of a series of familiar objects to establish a mental benchmark for measuring. We also will be solving one-step word problems involving metric weights within 100 and estimate to reason about the solutions.
Science- This week’s lesson we will focus on the force of magnetism. Your child will spend time observing and discovering some of the basic properties of magnets!
One fun thing you can do together with your child is to explore this printable chart featuring wonderful household uses for magnets (see link below). This reinforces this week’s learning and also models how engineers or inventors think, something we’re doing more frequently in science class.
http://thesecretyumiverse.wonderhowto.com/how-to/11-weird-and-wonderful-uses-for-magnets-0137723/
Social Studies- Discussing the history of Thanksgiving and where it came from.
Leader in Me- Discussing Habit 3: Put First Things First. We will talk about how planning helps you control your life. Also, we will discuss how leaders always plan weekly to schedule their BIG ROCKS (most important tasks) first.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday- Thanksgiving Celebration
Wednesday- Friday- No School-Thanksgiving Break