Thursday, September 22, 2011

Weekly Times September 23, 2011

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Language Arts

Spelling – reviewing the spelling of common sight words and number words
Writing – Me Bag paragraphs and sharing, spelling sentences
Reading- reading about the layers of the Earth
Read alouds: The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Next week: preparing for World Food Day

Maths
Addition with carrying
Subtraction on a number line
Next week: Metric measures - length in meters, centimeters, millimeters, kilometers

Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
Layers of the Earth illustration in computer
Rocks and minerals - what's the difference (cookies)
Vocabulary
Classifying Rocks
Next week: plate tectonics

Fun song about the layers of the Earth http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=Q9j1xGaxYzY&gl=US


Separating out different "minerals" from our "rocks" before eating them!

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