Creating the future, without fear.
Ocean Room friends had a week filled of lessons! First levels learned about opposites with their antonyms lesson. Also, they had a lesson about living and non-living things with Ms. Sally. Second levels learned about the function of the preposition. Third levels enjoyed their visit to Upper Elementary, as well as their Domains and Kingdoms lesson.
The week before Thanksgiving break, Ocean room friends presented to their friends and teachers their recipe projects. Everyone enjoyed the samples of the recipes! Ocean room friends also were able to make their own cranberry sauce and butter that they later enjoyed during lunch time. On Monday, the class had an introduction lesson on the continent of Europe. The students are ready to begin their research about the countries in Europe! This week also, Ocean Room friends had their Second Great Lesson; this lesson revolves around the Timeline of Life and leads to the study of zoology and botany.
We want to thank our families for taking to time to meet with us for parent/teacher conferences, we love sharing what your children are doing in class.
In Culture we continued our physical study of the Earth by studying land and water form. We looked at island/lake, cape/bay, isthmus/strait, peninsula/gulf and archipelago/chain of lakes. Please ask your children to help you identify them.
Earth Room still is loving idioms, we took the time to create a fun guessing game. We took well known idioms and drew the literal interpretation of them, if you find yourself on the third floor please take the time to play along.
Many new lessons were happening around the room this past week. The first graders had their introduction to fractions, the second graders did triangles by angles and third grade did fraction work.
In literacy we started our new unit of genre and how the different stories we ready fall into different genres. We started with fairytales and the themes that they have in common.
We also want to thank the parents who came in to celebrate Diwali. It’s always a pleasure to have parents come in and explain a culturally significant event.
Ocean Room friends had an amazing time with the very special guests that we had during work cycle! Work with your child week was a success! Thanks Ocean Room parents for coming! During this week, first level friends received one-on-one lessons on subtraction with the golden beads. Second level friends were introduced to fraction equivalences. In Language, second levels are reviewing plurals. Also, some second level friends received one-on-one introduction to multi-digit multiplication with the checkerboard. All of them had a lesson on the layers of the Earth!
Ocean Room friends are really happy to have very special guests this week! Work with your child week has been a success so far. The students are really excited to show parents all the work they do during work cycle and all the follow ups from all the lessons. Also, first levels received lessons on even and odd numbers, as well as, an introduction to fractions.
This week was filled with lessons. First levels were introduced to dynamic addition with the stamp game, which is more abstract that using the bead materials. Also, first levels had a lesson on telling time, while second and third levels had a review on telling time. In language, first levels were introduced to compound words. Second level students and third level students are working on multiplication with checkerboard.
We had a great time in our first field trip of the year. We had a GREAT at Abma’s farm. We arrived and went on a hay ride and then pumpkin picking. After lunch, we ate donuts and drank apple juice. Ocean Room friends enjoyed the petting zoo! We also had a week full of lessons. Ocean room friends made a compass; in this lesson they learned about the cardinal points. First levels were introduced to the first coin- penny! Second levels had a lesson on hemispheres!
This week, we celebrated Peace Day and our School Anniversary! Some friends were introduced to the stamp game to reinforce their knowledge of the four math operations in a more abstract way. Also, first levels did a follow up from their consonants and vowels lesson. Other friends were introduced to how to make tens in more than one way. Finally, second levels had a lesson on Infinity Street, which will help them create and read numbers into the quadrillions and beyond.
This week was filled of lessons! First levels had their pattern lesson, with this lesson they see the logic of creating patterns and help them create their own. First levels, also, had a lesson on Magic “e”. Second levels learned the difference about abstract and concrete nouns. Also, all of our friend worked on some sketching for their Small Moment Book!
