It's the last full week before the holiday break! Next week, we will only have school on Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday, we will have our Literacy Day celebration all day! We will also not be getting homework next week.
We got to meet with our 3rd grade buddies from Mrs. Corl's class. We had fun making "super" reading bracelts to wear on Tuesday.
This week we learned all about fairy tales. We read Jack and the Giant and completed a story map for our fairy tale. We learned words like: villain, hero, magical objects, climax, and resolution.
We also read two different Cinderella stories. Then, we made a Venn Diagram to compare the different story elements and see how our two fairy tales were the same and how they were different. This helped us to make our own fairy tales. We started working our our fairy tale plan and then our drafts. Thank you to Mrs. Rose and Mr. and Mrs. Licht for helping us to edit our stories and work through the writing process. When we publish our fairy tales, we will copy them onto scrolls and then design and create castles to hold our finished scrolls. What a fun writing project!
In Social Studies, we looked more closely at world maps and the map of the United States of America.
Then, we compared the two maps using a Venn Diagram.
We noticed that on our world map, there were 7 large bodies of land called continents. We even learned a little song to help us remember the names of the 7 continents. Here is how it goes:
We had to become experts at maps because we read Flat Stanley this week and created our very own flat people. We brainstormed where we could send our flat people.
We can't wait to send our flat people out and hear back about their adventures. We will be mapping all of our flat people's adventures and keeping track of all of the places they visit using our maps.
In Math, we moved on from object, shape, and color patterns to number patterns. We have been working really hard on studying our 100's chart and finding all sorts of number patterns on it! Ask me all the patterns that I noticed! We completed 100 chart puzzles where we had to fill in the missing pattern. We saw missing 5's, 10's, even numbers, and odd numbers. I have also been working on skip counting by 10's, 5's, and 2's all the way to 100. What a great mathematician I am becoming!
In Science, we have been studying the sky and all of the natural things found in the sky during the day and during the night. We also studied day and night and what makes each one each. This week, we started our science project. We created a mobile (all by ourselves) and labeled which side was night and which side was day. Then we made things for each of the skies, us doing one thing during the day and one thing at night, and then wrote about what we felt, heard, and saw during each time. We are going to to hang our mobiles over our tables for use to admire throughout the year.
We have been talking about being good citizens and good leaders too. Each Monday, we are going to set a goal, any goal, that we want to work on and meet during the week. We write that goal and stick it to our tables. We have to remind ourselves of our goals in order to work for them, otherwise they are just a wish. We also created a mission statement for our Tiger Team so we can remind ourselves how we are leaders each day both inside and outside the classroom.
On Thursday, we had our special luncheon. Thank you for coming out to eat with me and share a special time with me. I always enjoy when you visit me at school.
Next week is a short week, but we will be there bright and early on Monday!
Love,
