This week was full of growth!!
ELA: We continued our work on story elements this week. The kids learned how to take notes while listening to a story. To help Mrs. Seablom model how to take notes, Joe Mic. and Dominick helped out by reading aloud to the class!
Joe read The Hallowiener by Dav Pilkey and....
Dominick read The Stray Dog by Marc Simont.
The boys had great fluency, so Mrs. Seablom was able to take good notes on the board. Next week the students will be expected to write a full paragraph on the story elements of a read aloud book. I know that all the students are up for that challenge!
In other ELA news....we have yet another published author in our class.
Angelina got to read her book to the entire class, and then take it around the school to read to others. Her book had lots of funny parts that kept us laughing. We'll keep you posted as more authors become published!
For this week's friday letters, Ryan and Ankush got to lead the class in our brain storm. We like to get a good list of all the activities from the week, before we start writing. This is the first step in a writer's process. After the brain storm, we plan our paragraph in a fun 'pizza' graphic organizer. Then we write letters to our parents in perfect letter form.
Math: In math we worked on subtraction with borrowing. The students remembered a lot from last year. There will be more borrowing next week.
Social Studies: We are about to start our new unit: The United States.
Science: We ended our Plant Unit this week with a test, but that does not mean we will forget about our class garden! We still love watching our garden grow and go through all the stages we have learned about!
Check out how Ronny's lima bean seed germinated! It was the only one that worked in our class, but I have heard that some lima beans germinated at home.
We are happy to see that our lima bean plants have reached the adult stage. If they flower, we are going to try to hand pollinate them....a job bees would do if these were outdoor plants.
Our peas, corn, and hollyhock have already grown into seedlings! Check out how beautiful:
Hollyhock
Peas
Class Seedlings
We have 2 new signs of growth in our seed garden....
Ankush's pumkin seed sprouted...
as well as Kayleigh's popcorn!
We unfortunately also had a sign of death. Kate's sunflower somehow lost its leaves. That means no photosysnthesis, which means starvation. Maybe she will bring in another sunflower seed, and we can try again. Dylan brought in and planted a giant Mango seed. I hope it sprouts!!!!
We are experimenting with some Lima bean plants in our closet. We want to see what happens to a plant that has soil, water, but no sunlight.
Check out how long, skinny, and yellow these plants are. Notice how they are climbing up the walls....searching for the light. It almost makes us feel bad for them!
In other news....our f-go representatives, Kate and Ryan, went to their first meeting and gave us an update of what they did. They asked our class to come up with some new ideas for Fishkill theme days. The ideas were creative and fun! Kate and Ryan wrote all the ideas down so they can report back at their next f-go meeting.
See you Monday!