Today was our field trip to the Walled Lake Outdoor Center. The students attended four different classes: camouflage, spiders, making soil and the insect class. In each class students worked on something hands on. We camouflaged a potato then hid it for another group to find. We learned how important spiders our to the environment. We made soil from organic matter and used screens to grate it. We learned how insects see by putting on special insect glasses with many screens to see through.
It was a great day! See pictures below!
In reading this week, I will read several Halloween stories and pumpkin books. We will read a non fiction pumpkin book and I will teach the students non-fiction text features. We will use the book to help us during "pumpkin math."
Popcorn words this week are:no, not, ran, run, we, with.
In math we will be wrapping up unit two with lessons on subtraction number models and addition with three numbers. We will have a test on Thursday. The test will cover, using a number grid to count up and back, time to the hour, counting pennies and nickels, word problems (number stories) with addition and subtraction. I will also be doing pumpkin math. It is similar to apple math but I will supply one pumpkin for the whole class, we will cut it open on Friday to count the seeds!
This week in Social Studies we will begin to work on mapping, we will map the playground and classroom together. We will study maps. I will present the following new terms: natural environment, human-made, pollute, map, may key or legend, bird's eye view. An at-home project will be sent home on November 3rd and it is due on November 10th. Students will make a map with a map key of a room in your home or their bedroom.
On Friday we will have a Halloween parade and party at 2:45 p.m. Students need it bring, not wear, their costumes to school. We will change into our costumes before the parade. After the parade we will come back to the room for Halloween Bingo and a treat. Parents are welcome!
Savannah finds a spider!
Sophie learns how to make soil from organic matter!
Iris learns about what honey bees do in the winter!
I will post more pictures soon!
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