Teachers Pet, Base Ten, Adjectives and Pumpkins!

Teachers Pet

Yesterday we got to enjoy a special presentation in our classroom from Teacher's Pet. It was an introduction to water and the three states water can be. We got to do 4 different experiments to learn about some important properties of water:

Some of the Vocabulary we started talking about and making note of:

Evaporation
Precipitation
Condensation
Water Cycle
Density
Repel
Absorb
Melting
Freezing
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Water Molecules (H2O)

We will continue working with this vocabulary and experimenting with the properties of water. Ask me if I remember the Water Cycle Song!

Base Ten

In math we started working with Base Ten materials to explode numbers into their tens, fives and ones. We will continue working with base ten this week to visualize the tens and ones in a number in order to strengthen our understanding of PLACE VALUE. 

Using a T-Chart also helps us to remember the tens and the ones and which side they belong on:

Links to Practise Exploding Numbers:

https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/base-ten-blocks

http://www.abcya.com/base_ten.htm

We built the number using base ten and then exploded it into its tens, fives and ones. We had to write it and draw it.

Writing

Adjectives
Today we started looking at Adjectives. Words used to describe Nouns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4XZDyxJ23Q



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZkMbLkGims


We looked at a pumpkin and had to think of as many describing words or ADJECTIVES for it:

We then used these adjectives to try begin writing sentences (using sentence starters) about the pumpkin in our classroom!