Happy Thursday!! What a great week!! We are back on track after Iowa Assessments and working hard. We are having fun in Language Arts and learning new things in Math. The weather was great for the Lap-a-thon this morning and has been a great week to play outside. I hope the sun continues to shine. We are quickly approaching the last month of school!! I can't believe it! I am excited for summer break and softball games, but I am sad to lose this kids! I am so thankful you chose our school and allowed me to work with your child! This year has been a good one!
Language Arts - We are having a fun time reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We are reading a couple chapters a day. We are making journal entries for every chapter. There is a journal prompt for every chapter and they are required to draw a picture with it. The book has been divided into sections. They complete vocabulary words before each section and we discuss the definitions as we read. At the end of each section their is a page of questions that they must answer. Part of that is summarizing each chapter. Today we talked about how Roald Dahl's writing is very "off the wall". He doesn't follow rules. He overuses adjectives and prepositions. We found a sentence today with 6 prepositional phrases in a row! I told the kids we would use things we have learned all year when reading this book. Finding prepositional phrases is one of them. We also have talked about what makes this a fantasy book. The students will be writing their own fantasy story as we cover this book. They are working on their setting right now. Figuring out a setting, telling what it will look like and listing some adjectives that could be used in describing the setting. We will also be making Golden Tickets soon. We read the chapter today about Golden Tickets and will create our own tomorrow or next week. This is such a fun book and unit to teach.
Math - We have started Chapter 5 in math. We are learning to find the factors of a number and tell whether it is a prime number or composite number. We are also going to be discussing divisibility rules. I have a poster in the room showing the divisibility rules for the numbers 1-10. These items will help us when we get into fractions in the next chapter. This is a short chapter with only 5 lessons. We will not spend more than a couple weeks on this. Then we will be testing again!
Social Studies - We are finishing up on the Midwest. We just began the last lesson today. We will finish it tomorrow. Next week we will have a study guide and test. This means they need to be able to locate the state and name its capital. We will pick states for out last project next week also. I wanted to do this week but I was missing 3 kids today and 2 left early. That is too many to be gone. I plan to do one chapter in the Southwest and then one chapter in the West to finish the year. We are working along very well in the subject area. Considering we only have it 4 days a week we are really getting a lot covered.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!! Dance stage blocking and soccer for us! A busy time. I feel I am running out photos to share that you might be interested in, but here a few more.
God Bless,
Mrs. Sickels
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| We stood right outside. There was nothing exciting happening though, |
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| One of 7 pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in Wizard of Oz. These are in the Smithsonian. |
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| Time Square looking at where the ball drops on New Year's Eve. Pole is up towards top in front of the black square. |
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| Jami, Josie and I on top of the Rockefeller Center. Empire State building in the background and the 911 Memorial building in the far background. |
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