Benjamin Franklin projects!

November 17-21

Here goes with what we are learning this week:

Math: We are learning about balancing equations and determining if equations are true. We will also be working on missing addends.

Phonics: This week's phonics focuses are th digraphs.

Social Studies: We will continue with our landforms unit. Benjamin Franklin project is due on Monday. We will be working on a STEM project. We will be reading the Great Turkey Race and discussing obstacle courses. We will be using the coding mice to create an obstacle course.

Language Arts/Daily 5: This week we are finishing up Nonfiction text features. We will be working on different Thanksgiving writing activities: how to cook a turkey and thankful writing. We will work on discussing nouns if time permits and ABC order with some Thanksgiving words. We will also be working on wild turkey writing and close reading passage about turkeys during small group reading time.


Important Dates:
November 21st: Thanksgiving Lunch for 1st and 2nd grade. Progress Reports will go home. (only to students not meeting standards) Our lunch time is 12:25. Hope you can make it to our special lunch.
November 25 - 29: Thanksgiving Break NO SCHOOL

Science Lab- November 6- Light and Shadows

We had so much fun exploring light and making shadow puppets!

Halloween Fun!

We had fun today working on some Halloween activities! We worked in addition , subtraction, graphing, syllables and the children even wrote about what I should be for Halloween and the reasons why. The kids loved using food for our graphing activity!