Class News

This week we started Contract Spelling. On Mondays we always take a pre-test and we decide how many words we want to study for the week. We practice our words all week long and take a test on Friday. In P.E. we had fitness testing. In Math we learned about populations and samples. We did a fun math lesson using different kinds of beans. We counted them & recorded our data in a table first, and then graphed our data. Our first theme in Social Studies is Communities. We learned about the 3 types of communities: Rural, Urban, and Suburban. We live in a suburban community. To see the different types of communities from ABOVE, we used Google Earth. We noticed that in urban communities, like Chicago, all the buildlings were close together, but in rural communities we noticed lots of open spaces for crops to grow. In Reader's Workshop we brainstormed ways to take care of our classroom library. In Writer's Workshop we began writing small moment stories. We learned that authors write about things that they know! This month we're focusing on FRIENDSHIP so we talked about how to be a good friend and read the book Horris, Morris, but Mostly Dolores!