Terrific Tuesday!

El Monstro!

Spanish- Ms. Joanne made up a story about children who lived in the woods. In the story, the children wanted to build a monster to scare everyone. The kids used the body parts that they created at home, as well as their Spanish words, to make the monster! We have also been working on months of the year, days of the week, colors, and the alphabet. The kids are all coming out of their shells and repeating those Spanish words nice and loud this week!

Spelling- Today, we talked about the spellings of each of our new words. Notice that “science” does not follow the “i before e except after c” rule! The English language is so confusing! We took turns building each word as if we were making a hamburger. Ask them to show you how!

Grammar- We continued talking about nouns today. We discussed the difference between singular nouns and plural ones, learning the “usual” way of making plurals, by simply adding an “s”.

Reading- Reading class will be on Thursday. Check out those vocabulary sheets. I know the vocab is tough in this book-- We're starting out the year getting our brains really working! We will discuss Chapters 1-2 on Thursday. Be ready!

Here are the kids, as the sun!

Math- In our Teaching Textbook Lesson for tomorrow, the kids will be talking about days of the week and months of the year. We practiced figuring out “three days before Wednesday” and “four months after December”, but we also learned WHY there are 24 hours in a day and WHY there are 365 days in a year and WHY we have 12 months! The students did a demonstration of the sun-earth-moon system, seeing how days and night occur with a flashlight. They each learned the definitions of rotation, revolution, and axis. There's a review sheet in their folders!

Science- Science will be on Thursday, but I gave the kids hand outs on the next topic; cells. Look over them for science fun on Thursday!

Snack in the beautiful weather!

Art!

Art- Today, we learned the 5 basic shapes. We practiced cutting them out and created a picture using our shapes. We have also learned about lines: they can be straight (shortest distance between two points) or curvy. Ms. Nancy gave us all portfolios to use in class.  We need to decorate them, but bring them back!

Sharing.

Social Studies- The kids and Mr. Dennis explored the globe, reviewing the degrees on the globe, the poles, the prime meridian, equator, eastern/western and northern/southern hemispheres, and (*gasp*) the international dateline! Remember “East Increase” “West Less”(1 hour per 15 degrees)!

Social Studies.

Writing- Ms. Sharon really enjoyed learning about what makes us unique! We will be working on our first writing assignment-- turning one of our ideas from our list into a paper!

Studying our world.