Week 18

We continued on our study of Arctic animals. This week, we focused on the polar bear.

We read books about polar bears.

We created a schema chart with facts we learned after reading.

We made All About Polar Bear books.

We had fun making polar bears.

We concluded our week by watching the movie, Arctic Tales.

In language arts our focus book was Mama Cat Has Three Kittens. We worked on making predictions and inferring. 

Here was another fun book that we read. We practiced making predictions as we read this book. 

We learned a new letter, Oo, with the help of Octopus Stew. This 9 weeks, the students are expected to know both sounds that vowels make, so please work with that at home Vowel sounds are difficult and usually the last letter sounds learned. Our sight word was "is".

Jan Brett is a wonderful author and illustrator. We enjoyed reading some of her books. We practiced beginning, middle and end after reading this story.

And we made text to text connections after reading this book that sounded similar to another book about three bears.

In math, we continued discussing 3D shapes. We compared them to objects in the world and counted the faces, edges and vertices on each. We wrote about them in our math journals.

In social studies, we began learning about famous Black Americans. The first person that we learned about was Ruby Bridges. We understood how unfair it was to be segregated in schools.

We learned about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad and how she helped to free over 300 slaves.

And we began learning about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the difference he has made in our lives. 

Here is a craft we made to represent MLK's dream.

We will be out of school on Monday in honor of this wonderful man. Have a nice, long weekend!