Friday, April 22, 2011

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Math- Capacity

Social Studies- Our local community problem and solution


Review #'s 11-20 by counting the apples in the tree

Review- Matching capital and lowercase leaves


There are a variety (acorns,apples, leaves, limbs, bark etc..) of objects that come from a tree... We are going to figure out what part of the tree the item came from!!


Continuing expository texts and drafts


Sight word review...Fill the tree game


This will be our last week on studying trees! We will discuss items that come off of a tree and how trees change in Seasons!



Monday, April 18, 2011

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Math- Weight/Mass- We will compare two objects according to weight/mass...also, we will use comparative language like heavier than, lighter than and equal to Science- We will be learning about animals that live in trees... we will be building our own bird nest out of stick pretzels and peeps!
Social Studies- The Problem Solving Process- Using the story The Three Bears... The children will find a new ending to the story using the problem solving process we have learned!
Science- How We Can Classify Animals that live in a tree!!
EL AR- this week we will continue to gather information on trees or animals that live in a tree for our expository text

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

TREES

Science- We will be learning about Trees! Each student will create a tree fact book! This week we will focus on labeling the parts of a tree, How do trees grow, and the life cycle of a tree. This is a book that we will add information to over the next few weeks! We will label our class life-size tree!
EL AR- We will be learning how to research! This is our tree research center! In their tree hand print book, the students will write facts about trees that they learn and begin to look at animals that live in a tree! They students are preparing this research to write an expository draft.
During the last 6 weeks of school we will review all the sight words we have learned throughout the year. The students will paint their "Easter basket" then if they can read the words from the year they can place the egg in their basket!
Social Studies- We will figuring out how to solve a classroom problem by using the problem solving process.
Math- Length and Area- In each tree are animals that live in a tree. They will take the animal and first sort them from smallest to largest then they will find the animal that is the same size as the provided string. We will be using words like: Shorter than, same as etc

Monday, April 4, 2011

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Using the eggs in the carton...work out the additon and subtraction problems that have been provided! What pattern did your chicken lay with her eggs?
Spider ABC order and matching capital and lowercase
Fill your grocery sack with the correct # of healthy fruits!
IPOD touches and begin Spring Journals
Choose an animal....see what # is inside then match her with the correct # of babies
Open the egg then build the sight word that is inside!




This is a review week in CSCOPE and the last week of the 5th 6 weeks!