Weekly Times January 27, 2012

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Language Arts
Writing - "I found some money on the ground..." writing

Grammar - Contractions packet

Reading - Short stories involving money

Spelling: Contractions - the apostrophe takes the place of letters

Maths
Place value - up to ten thousands
Addition with carrying

Hundred bonds - ex. finding 54 + _____ = 100 by counting on to the next ten, then counting on by tens to 100

Subtraction with borrowing (munchable math - see picture below)

Mathletics

Units of Inquiry
MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND- How We Organize Ourselves

Decorating our questions to put up on the wall

Starting our classroom Economy - students are paid for coming to school, doing homework, doing their classroom jobs, cleaning up. They are paid weekly but must also pay their bills. They will be able to make choices about saving, spending or giving their money

Class store has opened - students are able to spend their money

Next week - credit cards

In ICT - practicing typing using Mavis Beacon, History of money lesson, sites used are linked to the Ambrit site http://ambrit-rome.com/technology/links/3links.html#money

The first link goes to some nice games...."Shopping Spree" and "Change Please" are the best

The 3 R's with Mr. Ronen - reduce, reuse, recycle

Pictures from our Field Trip to the INGV - Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia - an earthquake in northern Italy was registered while we were visiting the monitoring room (not the ones in the news now, one that was so small on the Richter scale that it would not have been felt by people)

Making a seismograph work

The Monitoring Room




The Activities We Did

Munchable Math with Ms. So

Weekly Times January 20, 2012

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Language Arts
Writing - Working on Revising their work by adding adetail to their holiday stories, as well as giving peer feedback in teacher-led groups,

Grammar - Antonyms packet, Poetry lesson working with antonyms

Reading - "checking in" on reading with Ms. Beeton, adjusting levels for independent reading where necessary

Spelling: Hard and soft g sound - after the vowels a, o, u andconsonants the sound is usually hard like g, after the vowels e, i, y the sound is usually soft like j

Maths
Place value - up to ten thousands
Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000
Greater than and less than using symbols

Negative numbers - using a thermometer

Addition with carrying

Addition "tricks" - mental math strategies using ten bonds to help with three number addition, review that it is not necessary to add in order ex. 13 + 8 + 17 adding 10 + 10 then 7+3 then 8 to get 38

Hundred bonds - ex. finding 54 + _____ = 100 by counting on to the nextten, then counting on by tens to 100

Mathletics

Units of Inquiry
BIRTH OF THE EARTH - Where We Are In Place and Time

Finishing up and refelction

MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND- How We Organize Ourselves
Tuning In activity - making fruit salad having to trade to get what they needed

Gathering prior knowledge in groups

Developing questions that we wonder about the new unit

Starting our classroom Economy - students are paid for coming to school, doing homework, doing their classroom jobs, cleaning up. They arepaid weekly but must also pay their bills. They will be able to make choices aboutsaving, spending or giving their money (this part is coming up next week)

In ICT - choosing a country and researching a their currency, practicing typing using Mavis Beacon as well (the school's typing program so that they learn to type correctly with proper typing fingers)

Jack and the Beanstalk trade and bartering lesson with Mr. Ronen who is collaborating on this unit and will be coming in to teach a lesson every Thursday afternoon

Weekly Times January 13, 2012

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Happy New Year!!!!

This week Ms. Audrey So, a student teacher from The College of New Jersey started in our class. She will be with us until February break. She is specializing not only in elementary education, but also deaf education. The children are learning some American Sign Language!

Language Arts
Writing - About the holiday, including one false fact that the rest of the class tries to guess, self editing
Reading -Read aloud "Old Befana" by Tomie de Paola, Reading with Ms. Beeton to check in on our independent reading colors
Spelling: Hard and soft c sound - after the vowels a, o, u the sound is usually hard like k, after the vowels e, i, y the sound is usually soft like s

Maths
Place value - up to ten thousands
Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000
Greater than and less than using symbols
Mathletics

Units of Inquiry
BIRTH OF THE EARTH - Where We Are In Place and Time
Finishing up final project board games


Coming up:
Starting our new unit: Money Makes the World Go Around