Friday, December 2, 2016

December 2, 2016

Our learning this week!


Reading: This week in reading, have been learning about the different text features in non fiction books! We focused on things like the table of contents, diagrams, labels, and the glossary. This ties right in to our writing! We are learning how to read non fiction books as well as become authors of non fiction books at writing time!

Writing: We started our non fiction writing unit last week! We learned how to "take notes" and research a topic. We all learned together researching ants. We finished taking notes on ants and are now turning our notes into a non fiction book.








Math: We have been learning all about graphs! We had quite a bit of knowledge on graphs already because we graph our weather daily! We have been focusing on talking about what we notice about the graphs using words like most, least, more than, less than, fewer, and in all! We will be finishing up our graphing unit next week!




Science: Not only are we still learning about animals with our cpszoo project, but we also started our space unit. This week we talked a little bit about the sun and the earth. Yesterday, we went outside and measured our shadows at different parts of the day. The kids were AMAZED at how long our shadows were at 8:30 in the morning compared to 10:00! We had such great conversations about why they were so different!


Important Dates:


December 7th - Field Trip to Rock Bridge High School Planetarium
(please help your child remember to return his/her permission slip)

December 15th- Candy Grams are due (this is an optional activity - funds help BEU PTA projects)

December 20th - Holiday Party (1:30-2:00)

December 21st - January 4th  Winter Break