Many Seconds in Second

Reading:

In reading, we continue to study the characters in our books.  We are looking at the actions of the characters and determining character traits and feelings. We also are finding sometimes the character act out in surprising ways.  We can mark our books with post-it notes when our characters act out of character.  You will soon be sent an email from your child with an i-pad project we did on character traits.

 **READING MINTUES ARE DUE EVERY MONDAY.

Math:

We will spend the next two weeks reviewing adding two-digit numbers and being able to verbally explain what we are doing in our written work.  We also will continue to count and add money. 

**Math homework is due each Friday.

Anika and Norrah practicing two-digit addition.

Science:

We will be wrapping up our Science unit on “Earth’s Land and Bodies of Water”.  We can identify the major landforms and bodies of water.  We learned how precious water is to us, and how we are blessed to have clean, fresh running water. On Friday we learned how water can get polluted by many things like litter, pesticides, gasoline, oil, fertilizer, and house hold cleaning supplies.  We made a model of our community then put these pollutants in the water.  We learned that it’s important to conserve and protect the water supply.

On Tuesday, Dec. 9 we will be going to the Water Treatment Plant for our second field trip.  Please email me if you would like to go with us.  We will be leaving school at 9:15 a.m on the bus.  We should be back around 10:45 a.m.

We also had the school nurse visit our classroom and show us how to wash our hands correctly.  She had us do an experiment.  We rubbed special lotion on our hands.  This lotion was to simulate germs.  After we had this lotion rubbed into our hands, the nurse had us thoroughly wash our hands.  We discovered that we didn’t do such a great job of removing this lotion/germs. After washing, we put our hands under a light to see how well we got the ‘germs’ or lotion off our hands.  We learned we need to spend more time washing than we usually do!

Social Studies:

We are learning about local communities.  This week we will compare and contrast rural, suburban, and big cities.  How familiar is your child with these terms? 

Writing:

In our Poetry Unit we have been learning how to make our poems ‘sound like music to the ear’.  We have been busy putting line breaks in our poems, using repetition of words and lines.  We are looking forward to sharing some of our final poems soon.

Bible:

Last week we learned about Prayer.  We learned the meaning of different parts of the Lord’s Prayer. We are beginning to memorize this prayer.  I will be sending your child’s final project of the Lord’s Prayer home soon. Your child spent time drawing pictures and recording this prayer on their ipad in an app called My Story.

Click on the link to see this project.  http://goo.gl/MFYQX5

Things to remember:

-Library is on Tuesday

-Field Trip to the Water Treatment Plant on Tuesday morning from 9:15-10:45. If you would like to join us please send me an email by Monday night.

-Family Christmas Tree Project is due this Monday

- Kids' Food Basket-we will be making breakfast bundles for children over the holiday break. See previous blog post for more information.