WORKERS IN OUR SCHOOL We have moved from learning about being a helper at home to learning about being a helper at school. Last week we discussed ways that children can help our school and this week we are learning about how adults who work here specifically help. We've interviewed Ms. Gwaltney (music), Nurse Nancy, Mr. Bryant (ESOL), and Mr. Starr (custodian) this week. In our interviews we are learning about the jobs these people perform, the tools they use, and also some personal information like what they do in their time off. Some have had funny stories to tell us too! BUDDING AUTHORS We have just completed our unit on writing narratives with beginning, middle, and end. One of our favorite parts of writing our own stories is getting to share them! We like to celebrate writing by listening to student authors read and then offering compliments about each book. Your child should be bringing home some finished (and unfinished) narratives today. These can stay at home for you to enjoy! NOT AFRAID OF A LITTLE SLIME
This week in math we've been estimating how many items are in a set by making wise guesses. We've written down our estimates and then counted objects into groups of ten with some left over to determine how many items there really are in that set (for ex: 5 sets of 10 and 3 left over is 53). Then we looked back to see who guessed more, who guessed less, and who got the number just right. We did this with spider rings and insect toys, and today we had a blast trying it again with pumpkin seeds...of course we had to get a little slimy in math today! Our pumpkin had 738 seeds! Good thing we know how to count by tens!!!
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