We have had a wonderful 2 weeks exploring the Ocean.   The students are quite knowledgeable about ocean fish, ocean plants, and ocean animals.  Today, my class looked like a high school English class!  They used their notes from this week to write 3 sentences about an ocean fish or animal.  their writing is fantastic!  They had to write about where the fish/animal lives, what the fish/animal eats, and is it a fish or an animal.  As they used their notes, they looked like they were writing a term paper.  Lots of thought and independent work.  Not every student is writing about the same fish/animal.   Then there are the mechanics of writing…capital letters at the beginning of sentences and punctuation at the end of sentences.  Whew..there is a lot going on in here.

We are now creating a chart that shows the 4 different depths of ocean waters and the animals that live in each zone. More to come on that next week.  why do certain fish/animals live in the Sunlight Zone and not the Twilight Zone?  Why the Midnight Zone and not the Abyss Zone?  Stay tuned…

READING COMPREHENSION-Rereading (We have to do a lot of Rereading to understand some of this information.)

READING SKILL-Using Illustrations (We are using lots of illustrations to help us understand all of this Ocean information!)

SPELLING WORDS-  with  my   pen   den   hen   men   then   when

MATH-ADDENDS    Missing numbers  11 + 6= 17     11 & 6 are addends

-We also will work with fluency in Subtraction up to 10.  You can work with this at home.

SCIENCE-The Ocean

-our Plants

This week the students will also be taking the District Writing Prompt.  You can help by having them eat a good breakfast and to school on time.

That’s our week.  Happy Earth Day today!

Mrs. Smith