Weekly Update April 19

This week we had a busy week! The kids loved the field trip to the Chattahoochee Nature Center on Tuesday. We wrapped up learning about area and perimeter, learned all about the life cycle of a frog, and began working on constructing compound sentences.

Next week...

Math

We will start chapter 10 of Everyday Math. This chapter focuses on money and place value.

Language Arts and Spelling

We will continue to work on compound sentences in language arts. In spelling we will continue our study of vowel teams, with the vowel teams that say the /ou/ sound.

Writing

We will research butterflies and write an informational writing piece about butterflies.

Science

Next week we will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. We will eventually be getting butterfly kits where we will watch the change from caterpillar to butterfly. I'm hoping the kit will arrive sometime next week.

Other News

Our field trip to Zoo Atlanta is on May 2.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Chattahoochee Nature Center

Stuffed Animal Day

The class has earned a stuffed animal day (they voted on this choice) as a reward.

We will do this on Tuesday when we are back from Spring Break.

The stuffed animal must be small enough to fit on their desk without taking up the desk (no huge stuffed animals, please!). 

Friction Lab

Look at us being scientists! We experimented by pushing different objects along different surfaces in the classroom: tile, carpet, sandpaper.

We discovered that the rougher the surface, the shorter the distance an object will move. This is friction!

Mystery Reader April 5

Thank you, Ian Irwin, for being our mystery reader!



High Touch High Tech!

After spring break we will begin learning about life cycles!

High Touch High Tech came to give us a lesson about living things.