ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:
Wednesday is our field trip to Hannaford for their guiding stars tour! Please remember to turn in your child’s permission slip by TOMORROW! Second notices went home in your child’s folder today. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thursday afternoon, we will be hosting Pablo Paredes! Here is an excerpt from his poster:
“Pablo Paredes Goche is a ceramic artist from Tlaquepaque, Mexico. He comes from a family of artisans famous for their traditional figures depicting Mexican celebrations and village life. The region where he lives, in the state of Jalisco, is known for a variety of traditional ceramics that are produced using the techniques passed down from generations within craft families.
Pablo will be traveling with his wife Enriqueta, and together they will be demonstrating the techniques used to create the ancient art of the Olmec and Aztec civilizations. Their lecture and demonstration follows the progress of ceramic sculpture from ancient times to present day folk art traditions. “
The second grade students from Memorial School will be traveling down to Russell for this special event as well. We will enjoy lunch and recess together! It will be a group opportunity for us to mingle with some friends that we will see at Dunn School next year.
Team Blowey’s First Annual Poetry Night is this Thursday! Please make your best efforts to be there. The event will be from 5:30-6:30. Students are asked to wear black shirts and jeans to honor the beatnik culture in which poetry readings at small coffee shops were popular. Snacks and drinks will be served from 5:15-5:30. We hope to see you there!
If you are willing and able to donate any snacks, juice, or water for our Poetry Night, it would be greatly appreciated! Please remember, no strawberries, pineapples, or kiwis should be included. It would be great if we could also have one dairy and/or gluten free option! If you would like to contribute, please contact me by Wednesday morning with what you would like to bring in.
Spring break homework packets are due on Thursday! Please remind your child to put it in their backpack on Wednesday evening.
This week in...
Phonics: We are working with the schwa sound (uh sound). Here are our focus words: alone, agree, ago, above, again, awake, away, idea, alike, and comma.
Vocabulary: Our new words are vast, oceans, areas, voyage, and planet. We’ll define these words and build connections to them. Then, we’ll search for them in the short stories “Continents and Oceans” and “Record Holders!”.
Comprehension: We will be working on identifying the main idea and supporting details. The main idea of a story is what a story is mostly about. The supporting details give us more information about the main idea. We’ll practice this skill while we read Columbus Explores New Lands.
Writing: This week we are wrapping up our poetry unit and beginning our next big writing project... our animal research projects! Later this week, students will have the chance to explore lots of books about all different kinds of animals. From there, they will make a list of their top three choices. One of those choices will become the animal that they study. They will be looking for information such as:
-Is your animal a mammal, fish, amphibian, insect, reptile, or a fish?
-What does it look like? What are some of its defining characteristics?
-Is your animal a herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore? What exactly makes up your animal’s diet?
-Where does your animal lives? What is their habitat like?
-What are some interesting facts about your animal?
To kick off this project, we will begin studying penguins together as a class.
Grammar: We will be working with possessive pronouns. A possessive pronoun shows who or what has something. Here are some examples: my, her, his, your, and our.
Math: We will continue our math flexible groups for adding and subtracting within 100 with a focus on word problems. On the days that we don’t switch, we will also continue our work with our math facts, time, and money. This week, we have also introduced our measurement unit. To get our brains fired up, we talked about what we know about measurement (i.e. units of measure we know, tools we might use, etc.). Then, we practiced measuring with meatballs (a nonstandard unit) as a review from our first grade measurement standards. Then, we walked around the room to find things that were longer, shorter, or the same as our craft sticks to practice making comparisons based on measurement. Finally, we sorted objects by what we would measure them with: inches, feet, or yards. For example, we would measure a flower in inches but we would measure a tree in yards.
Science: We will finish up our cloud observations this week as well as talking about some tools that we use to track weather. Here are some examples: thermometer, barometer, wine vane, rain gauge, etc. Later, we will actually create some of these weather tools to track the weather for one week at Russell School.
We'll also learn about healthy choices on our field trip to Hannaford this week! Be sure to ask your child what they learned about the guiding stars on Wednesday!
Scholastic News: This week, we will be reading about fireflies! We’ll learn how they make their light, how they communicate, and how they send a warning! Then, we’ll answer some questions about the firefly life cycle based on a chart.
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