We made quilt squares with our buddies from Nursery A
Headlines
Spelling – the vowel sound /au/ like "Aw, isn't that so cute!"
Grammar - pronouns
Writing - Editing work for capitalization, punctuation and spelling, "Three Things I Am Thankful For" paragraphs
Reading - Beginning guided reading groups, some reading "Dinosaurs Before Dark" and some reading "Saving the Stegosaurus"
Read aloud - "The Birth of the Earth," "Life: A History of Evolution" and "Our Thanksgiving"
Maths
Fractions as parts of a group, informal work with equivalent fractions, fractions as division
Review of Time on the clock
Number patterns
Mathletics - all of the above
Units of Inquiry
BIRTH OF THE EARTH - Where We Are In Place and Time
Vocabulary work
Ordering activity with pictures of the birth of the earth through first life
Adaptations activity
ICT - Darwin natural selection game (the vocabulary is challenging but the students get the game) link: http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/darwin/darwin.html
Read alouds
Adaptation Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJH-01WLEg0
Homer Simpson evolution : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY
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