We have a busy week ahead, and it's only four days:
Literature – This week we are continuing Owl at Home and working in our packets. We are also starting reading groups! We can’t wait to take turns reading aloud and sequencing stories in small groups. A huge thank you to those of you signed up to read with us! Homework is to continue reading every night from the leveled readers. Please bring your books back on Thursday this week since there is no school on Friday!
Spalding – In Spalding, we only have 20 words, as it is a short week. Our spelling test will be on Thursday.
Monday: call, long, love, then, house, year, to, I, as, send
Tuesday: alone, lone, one, has, some, if, how, her, them, other
Phonograms to practice: h, l, qu, y, z, ea, ew, ng, th, ui
Writing – We will do copy work and narration exercises from Caddie Woodlawn this week.
Grammar – In Grammar, it’s game week! Each day we will play a different game to review nouns and verbs.
Poem – “Autumn Woods” by James Tippett – we’ll be practicing this one in class for fun the next two weeks in honor of the beginning of Autumn! (Note: This one won’t go home to practice. We’ll send our next one home after Fall Break!)
Idiom – It at first you don’t succeed…
Math - This week we will work towards mastery of both writing and speaking our subtraction facts! We will solve number bonds and relate subtraction to addition based on our different "parts" and our "whole" of each number bond. We will also be practicing counting down from 10 and using a number line to help us solve subtraction problems. It's going to be a fun week with lots of math games and new concepts :)!
History - This week we are continuing our study of ancient Mesopotamia with the study of the Code of Hammurabi. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a seven and a half foot stone stele and various clay tablets. The code consists of 282 laws. We will also read the classic epic of the world’s oldest and most important legend. The Story of Gilgamesh was first carved onto clay tablets in Mesopotamia. Its message is of compassion, forgiveness, and friendship and the story has echoed through the ages from its origins of over 5000 years ago.
Science – This week in science, we will be learning about environmental change and habitat destruction. We will discuss the negative effects of pollution and pesticides and also the benefits of recycling! We will also read a short biography on Rachel Carson and discuss her accomplishments.
(A quick note on History/Science: Recently we've begun alternating the days that we have History and Science, similar to what is done in the upper grades. On Wednesdays we do a little of each subject and it is more discussion based. By doing History on Monday/Friday and Science on Tuesday/Thursday, we have even more time to delve deeper into the material and spend more time polishing our projects, rather than rushing through each. So far it is working great, and we are loving the new schedule!)
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| We love music class! Last week we played a game called "Lucy Locket". |
