April 13-17
I hope everyone had a wonderful, relaxing weekend! Lyla and I spent some time with her Daisy Troop at Camp TexLake followed by some fun in the wildflowers!
Our chicks...
I hope everyone had a wonderful, relaxing weekend! Lyla and I spent some time with her Daisy Troop at Camp TexLake followed by some fun in the wildflowers!
Our chicks...
About two weeks ago I opened our incubator and there was no heat! So our sweet baby chicks never had a chance to start developing. Mrs. Amiri's incubator decided to stop working over the weekend so her eggs suffered the same fate! The good news is we had a second incubator set up for our 3 extra eggs. Those little guys look great! Hopefully we'll see them hatch later this week.
Our first grade team decided to purchase an additional two dozen eggs. So, our count down is on for our second hatchers! There due date is April 29th!
This is a fun video of what it will be like to see our babies hatch!
This morning I introduced the idea of commenting to interact with our class blog. I showed the students where to go to add a comment. I explained that a comment is a short note or question you can post. I told the students that once they comment an email will be sent to me and I will review their comment then publish it. Encourage your child to add a comment about the video or chick hatching. Interacting with virtual content is a 21st century skill!
**REMINDERS**
Monday: Homework Folders come home. There will be two Time for Kids activities and no math homework this week!
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please sign and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday: HATCH DAY! Our first round of chicks should begin to hatch! If you have newspaper or small pet bedding you would like to donate send it in on Wednesday!
Thursday:
Friday: Homework folder is due.
Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please sign and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday: HATCH DAY! Our first round of chicks should begin to hatch! If you have newspaper or small pet bedding you would like to donate send it in on Wednesday!
Thursday:
Friday: Homework folder is due.
Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
READING and WRITING
We are continuing with our animal research this week. The students are locating sources for information in books, magazines and online on our Caraway Library website, synthesizing it and recording it in their own words. They are using features in non-fiction books such as the table of contents, real photos, captions, labels, maps and diagrams to find the answers to their questions. There are times that we find an expert (friends that know so much about a particular animal) and ask them some of our questions. Our goal is to become an expert on our animal so we can "publish" our book and send them down to a Kindergarten class!
MATH
This week we will review and work more on place value. We will use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 120 in more than one way as so many hundreds, so many tens, and so many ones. For example one hundred can be shown as 100 ones, 10 groups of tens, or 1 one hundred. This will help us to read and write three-digit numbers that do not involve teens. For example, 105 has one 100, 0 tens and 5 ones. We will use our knowledge of place value and apply it in math problem solving.
SCIENCES
This week we will continue our PBL (Project Based Learning) about the impact of deer in our community. We have done some research about the plants and flowers that deer don't like and this week we will continue our research to find out more about this. Our goal is to find out about the problems and challenges that impact our community and the deer to find out possible solutions. Be on the lookout for our student-created posters that will educate our community on the best solutions for deer resistant plants. There is a QR code you can scan that will direct you to our class blog where the students will publish more detailed information!
This week we will review and work more on place value. We will use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers up to 120 in more than one way as so many hundreds, so many tens, and so many ones. For example one hundred can be shown as 100 ones, 10 groups of tens, or 1 one hundred. This will help us to read and write three-digit numbers that do not involve teens. For example, 105 has one 100, 0 tens and 5 ones. We will use our knowledge of place value and apply it in math problem solving.
SCIENCES
This week we will continue our PBL (Project Based Learning) about the impact of deer in our community. We have done some research about the plants and flowers that deer don't like and this week we will continue our research to find out more about this. Our goal is to find out about the problems and challenges that impact our community and the deer to find out possible solutions. Be on the lookout for our student-created posters that will educate our community on the best solutions for deer resistant plants. There is a QR code you can scan that will direct you to our class blog where the students will publish more detailed information!
I cannot wait for our chicks to hatch.
ReplyDeleteI would name my chick james
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