My Napping House, Entomology and Hill Investigations and James and the Giant

Reminder: Tomorrow there is no school due to Conferences. We look forward to seeing you tonight from 4:30 pm-8:30 pm or tomorrow between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm to discuss how your child learns best and learn a little more info about your child.

Reminder: Book orders were due today. If you are still planning on placing an order please do so by tomorrow so that I can submit the current orders over the weekend. 

Math

Today we read The Napping House by Audrey Wood.

We were challenged to figure out how many feet were napping in the story?

We worked together by drawing, labelling, adding numerals and writing an equation to find a final answer for this problem. 

Students were then asked "How many napping feet are their in your house?". They drew, labeled, used numbers, equations and strategies of our choice to figure out our answer. 

Science

What is an Entomologist?

We made predictions about what kind of a job this would be? We sketched our ideas. Then we watched this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxlLHv9Pbwg

We then added what we had learned about entomologists and what they do to our sketches.

Today we walked to the top of the hill and used bug boxes and magnifying glasses to look for signs of insects. We even caught a few so that we could observe them and then release them back into the wild.

We then came back to the classroom and sketched and labelled what we remembered observing as well as any thinking or wonders we had about the insects:

Next week we are hoping to go to the Wetlands and compare what other kinds of insects we can observe there. 

Novel Study

Today we previewed the Novel that we will begin reading next week. We will be reading James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 

We did a book preview and read the back and inside cover to see if this book sounded interesting and exciting!