ACADEMIC UPDATE
Academically we have been putting our best foot forward, as well.
- READING: The focus for reading thus far has been on basic comprehension skills. One that we focused on this week is how to make predictions about a text that we are reading. This helps us to anticipate the events of the story and gain an understanding for why characters do certain things. We have also used the "5 W's" (Who, What, Where, When, & Why) to understand what we're reading.
- WRITING: We have been learning about verbs, words that show an action. We're learning that we have to have the action and a naming part to create a complete sentence. We want to make sure to have the basic blocks, like complete sentences and basic paragrahph format for writing before we begin our writing genre studies: descriptive, narrative, informational, and persuasive writing.
- MATH: We are continuing to look at how numbers go together to create new numbers in different ways and how numbers relate to one another through place value and adding. We will soon begin to use regrouping, formerly know as "borrowing and carrying".
- SCIENCE: We will usually follow one track for a unit of study on science, social studies, or health. We will not generally be doing all three of these at one time. This week, we were learning how to use the scientific process through a popcorn experiment. Children made a hypothesis, carried out an experiment, and collected data about what the best types of popcorn were. They also did observation of a tree that we adopted for the year. We will be taking data on this tree at various points throughout the to witness the differences in seasons and how it affects the tree. We will do descriptive writing in relation to this project, as well.
