After our day off for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, a 1/2 day and then a snow day, we will come in an hour late tomorrow. I think we are giving our new student teacher, Miss Maikisch, the wrong idea of a proper school week!
For this week and next, we will be working on main ideas and details for our reading comprehension, verbs for grammar, and vowel families o and i for phonics. We will complete our first hundred fry words with our Most Common Word list 10.
In Math, we finish up on surveys and graphs and have our assessment on Tuesday or Wednesday. In Science we will finish our section on solids and go on to liquids.
Conferences are next Thursday and Friday. Please let me know if the time I gave was not convenient. If you did not receive a time and believe that a conference is warranted, please contact me ASAP.
A question to ask your child: Is snow a solid or a liquid? Why do you think so? (Remember, solids keep their shape unless acted upon and liquids take the shape of their container. What does snow do?)
On Tuesday, we read about Snowflake Bentley, a photographer who photographed snowflakes. Here is a link to some other pictures of individual snowflakes. When we see these pictures, we can see that snowflakes are solid (they are ice crystals that are caused by freezing water vapor) and when they melt they revert back to water. http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photos/photos.htm
How many of these little guys fell from the sky on Tuesday?
For this week and next, we will be working on main ideas and details for our reading comprehension, verbs for grammar, and vowel families o and i for phonics. We will complete our first hundred fry words with our Most Common Word list 10.
In Math, we finish up on surveys and graphs and have our assessment on Tuesday or Wednesday. In Science we will finish our section on solids and go on to liquids.
Conferences are next Thursday and Friday. Please let me know if the time I gave was not convenient. If you did not receive a time and believe that a conference is warranted, please contact me ASAP.
A question to ask your child: Is snow a solid or a liquid? Why do you think so? (Remember, solids keep their shape unless acted upon and liquids take the shape of their container. What does snow do?)
On Tuesday, we read about Snowflake Bentley, a photographer who photographed snowflakes. Here is a link to some other pictures of individual snowflakes. When we see these pictures, we can see that snowflakes are solid (they are ice crystals that are caused by freezing water vapor) and when they melt they revert back to water. http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photos/photos.htm
How many of these little guys fell from the sky on Tuesday?