What a week! As much as we all love school, I am sure your kids loved having the snow day on Thursday. It looked like a winter wonderland over on the eastside. I am sad to say that I did not see any snow over here where I live.
We wrapped up our unit on landforms and will be studying Native American tribes Southwest and Plains. The kids love doing hands on activities and this week we made a volcano. Check it out!
The kids loved following the multi-step directions and we used our measuring skills. The activity consisted of vinegar, dish soap, baking soda, and food coloring. The volcano erupted! Why does this happen? The red lava is the result of a chemical reaction between the baking soda and vinegar. In this reaction, the carbon dioxide gas is produced, pressure builds up inside the plastic bottle until the gas bubbles out of the volcano. This is a good representation of what happens in real volcanoes.
The students were introduced to a real spider this week. It is a Rose Hair Tarantula named Sweetie Pie. I thought the kids would be scared but they were not. I am not 100% comfortable having a spider as our class pet so we will be bringing it back to my husband's room this week. Sweetie Pie likes eating a diverse menu including grasshoppers, crickets, moths, beetles, cockroaches and mealworms.
This week we will start our Bats unit. I do not plan on bringing any live bats to our class.
This week we reviewed:
Spelling Words: Reviewed words and started making sentences. Fall Word Wall: pumpkins, spider, scarecrow, apples, candy corn
Wilson Reading: consonant one syllable blends, welded sounds olt, old, ind, initial sounds
Language Arts: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
Social Studies: Landforms - Volcanos and Mountains (Canadian Rockies)
Writing: Prewriting-Students generate ideas for writing through class discussion and by drawing pictures about their ideas for self-selected and assigned topics.
Math:Geometric Shape Sort, time, money, addition,
Science: Spiders
Dates to Remember:
10/29 - Conferences 3:30-8:00 pm
10/29 - Mix it Up Day
10/31 - Fall Festival Parties
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