We are certainly chugging along through the first week of school! Quick note that this Thursday, our school will be hosting an Open House from 3:30 - 5:00. I will give a short presentation in the classroom around 3:45 and 4:30 about the year.
This year in Math, our school is working with a new program called Jump Math. It comes with a practice and assessment book that the work on in the classroom. Currently we are counting up and down with our hands and a number line..
In Language, you may have seen a yellow duotang go home on Tuesday. This is for the Working with Words lessons for the week. The class can practice these words for the week, and they will be quizzed on 10 of them for Friday. If you are looking for homework for the week, I recommended to the children that they can choose 10 of the words at write them in a proper sentence either in the document in Hapara, or they can write them on paper too! Last week (and this upcoming week), we worked on our descriptive writing. We have been looking at the 5 senses and how they can be used to add description in their writing. We also continued our read aloud of A Dog's Life. While I read this aloud, I have multiple pause points that I will discuss "tricks" the author uses, get them to predict what may happen next, draw real-life connections and give them basic thoughts that a "good adult reader" thinks about as they are reading a story.
Finally, in Science class we have started our unit on Soils. We looked at the parts of soil (tiny rocks, air, water and humus) and designed our title page. Also, we are finishing up our Lego Portraits.
