Weekly Times February 11, 2011

Headlines

Language Arts

Spelling – each student has 10 personal spelling words

Reading – Guided Reading Groups:

Saving the Stegosaurus by Rex Stone

Dawn of the Dinosaurs by Mary Pope Osborne

Spellodrome

Describing animal adaptations and the 5 most important events in the story of the birth of the Earth, from the beginning through dinosaurs

Read alouds: Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole

Math

Angles

Are measured in degrees

90, 180, 270 and 360 degrees in a circle

90 and 45 degree angles

Number Patterns

Nets of cubes

Beginning to Review for assessment next week

On the assessment:

addtion and subtraction:

• basic facts
• carrying and borrowing also with money (the decimal point lined up)
• adding to 100 and 1000 (73 + ______ = 100) and (650 + ___________ = 1000)

ordering numbers
greater than, less than and equal to
numbers on a number line
rounding to the nearest 10
multiplying and dividing by 10 ( ex. 338 x 10 or 2100 divided by 10....always a number where they just have to add or take away a zero)
2-step word problems
grams and kilograms (knowing that 3657 grams = 3 kg 657 g because 1kg = 1000 g)
compass directions (n, s, w, e, nw, ne, sw, se)
vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines
angles
nets of cubes

We will review on Monday and Tuesday as well

UNITS of INQUIRY: Birth of the Earth

Where We Are in Place and Time

ICT- Dinosaur Facts

Dinosaur Dig

Life after Dinosaurs

Video on youtube about camels and adaptations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX8VQIJVpTg

Be sure to see the PICTURES from last week's field trip and our dino dig that have been posted this week!

Announcements and Notices

Monday, February 14, 2011 – Valentine’s Day - Cookie Decorating in the morning and bake sale

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 – Bake Sale continues – proceeds go to Haiti

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 – Deadline for donations for the orphanage in Zanzibar

February 21-25 – February Break - School is closed

Monday, February 28, 2011 - Teacher Planning Day- no school for students

Feel free to email me anytime at courtney.beeton@ambrit-rome.com

Dinosaur Dig Pictures

The Dig Outside


















In the "Lab"


















WE DID IT!
With teamwork and effort, we dicovered that we had unearthed a Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Field Trip to INGV, February 4, 2011

Shaking to make the seismograph work


Pushing hard on the land to show what can happen in an earthquake

The model Earth with the plates that the children had to put back together.
In the background there is another model we saw that showed the geological processes that can lead to earthquakes and volcanoes

More shaking the Earth


We also had a presentation. saw a short film about volcanoes and go to go into the room where the scientist monitor all of the earthquakes in Italy and its neighbors.

Weekly TImes February 4, 2011

Headlines

Language Arts

Spelling – The suffixes -able and –ible

Rules:

1. A suffix is a group of letters added at the end of a word to change its meaning.

2. The suffixes –able and –ible mean “able to be” and are usually adjectives.

3. For a word that ends in e, drop the e before adding the suffix

4. There are exceptions to this rule such as : changeable, knowledgeable and noticeable

Reading – Guided Reading Groups:

- Saving the Stegosaurus by Rex Stone

- Dawn of the Dinosaurs by Mary Pope Osborne

- Spellodrome

- Describing animal adaptations

Grammar: Pronouns

Read alouds: A Cartoon History of the Earth: Life Begins

Math

Compass with cardinal and intermediate directions (N, S, W, E and NW, NE, SW, SE)

Vertical, horizontal, diagonal lines

Circles – diameter and radius

Points on a grid

UNITS of INQUIRY: Birth of the Earth

Where We Are in Place and Time

ICT- Animal Adaptations and Evolution

Readings on Animal Adaptations

Video on youtube about camels and adaptations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX8VQIJVpTg

Fossil Record Scavenger hunt

Video on the Origins of Life

Field Trip to INGV that went with out Dig It unit

Announcements and Notices

Monday, February 14, 2011 – Valentine’s Day (more information to follow)

February 21-25 – February Break - School is closed

Feel free to email me anytime at courtney.beeton@ambrit-rome.com