This week we studied Word Choice in our writing. We realized words can engage us in an author's writing. We read the book A Leaf Can Be... by Laura Purdie Salas. We noticed how Laura did not say, "The giraffe eats leaves." Rather, she says, "Leaves can be a mouth filler." We used this inspiring book to write about our own topic of choice. We put our words in poetry format. One poem came out like this:
Owls in the Forest by Fiona Owls can be cool like a panda amazing like a unicorn eating fruit like a zebra living in trees like a monkey A few students even created inferences for their poems! We are working hard on learning and applying strategies to our writing!
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We have learned a lot about our Solar System! We are preparing for our field trip to the Planetarium and the Field Museum. So far, we've learned... ...terminology.
...components.
...locations.
...importance.
To prepare for the Planetarium, we created our own constellations after viewing some on Google Sky. Check it out!
The past few weeks we studied geometry. We played with geoboards, pattern blocks, and 3-D shapes. We learned about shape attributes (the qualities of each shape), composing and decomposing shapes. Along with this study comes a variety of vocabulary words including turn, rotate, flip, slide, stack, and so on. As a project, we made a class quilt modeled after quilt blankets... ...and barn quilts. Each student used shapes and patterns to create their own unique quilt square. I put them together to create a Class Quilt. Here it is! In case you're interested, the geoboard app we used in our classroom can be found here.
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