Weekly Times March 24, 2012

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Units of Inquiry-
Sharing the Planet - Home Sweet Home
Reading about climate in the world (affected by temperature, precipitation, elevation, distance from a large body of water)

Atlas Scavenger Hunt and world map

Examining the book Wonderful Homes Around the World to find information (scavenger hunt)

Lesson with Mr. Ronen - comparing houses

Video on shelters around the world
ICT - homes through history in the UK

Read alouds - Come Over to My House and This is My House

Language Arts
Writing - paragraph about the weekend with sharing, desert island stories- editing and sharing

Spelling - the prefixes un- meaning "not" and re- meaning "again"

Grammar - apostrophes showing possession (Amy's hat instead of the hat of Amy)

Reading - non-fiction about climate

Maths
Centers: (not finished with all groups)

Looking over assessment

counting by 25's

base 5 game

mathletics (multiplcation/division arrays)

Multiplication of a 2 digit by a 1 digit number

Weekly Times, March 17, 2012

Making our two-layer walls with partners - it was challenging!

Our walls.

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Units of Inquiry-
Sharing the Planet - Home Sweet Home
Tuning in- testing and discussing the effects of weather (wind and water) on our shelters

Prior knowledge - collecting vocabulary

Questions we have

Lesson with Mr. Ronen - building an insulated, two layer wall with the bricks
ICT - Google maps- looking at different houses around the world

A walk around the school to look at the materials used in the building

Language Arts
Writing - paragraph about the weekend, desert island stories

Spelling - the suffix -ful meaning "ful of"

Grammar - review of adjectives and adverbs

Reading - sort stories involving attics

adding things to our portfolios

Read aloud: "Frindle" by Andrew Clements

Maths
Assessment

Base 5 system to help better understand place value, with units, cups and stacks... only the digits 0,1,2,3,4 - games

Weekly Times March 10, 2012

We made clay bricks! Next week we will build with them.



Our Shelters

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Units of Inquiry-
Sharing the Planet - Home Sweet Home
Tuning in- making shelters with the resources provided, reflecting
Lesson with Mr. Ronen - bricks
ICT - design and describe my dream home

Buddy hour activity with our Nursery Buddies

Language Arts
Writing - Robinson Crusoe cloze activity

Assessment by the EAL department

Spelling/grammar: adjectives-comparative and superlative adding the suffixes -er and -est
Read aloud: "Frindle" by Andrew Clements

Maths
Review:
Addition and Subtraction
Greater than and less than
Reading a scale
Negative numbers on a thermometer
Cardinal and Intermediate directions
Word problems
Hundred Bonds

Weekly Times March 2, 2012

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Language Arts
Writing - Leap Day letter to yourself on the next leap day, reflection on the unit

Poetry - Spring poems

Spelling: compound words

Maths
Money math with the "Mercatino"

Directions - cardinal and intermediate (N, S, W, E, NW, NE, SW, SE)

Mathletics

Next week: Review and assessment

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

Final Project "Mercatino" - in groupsof 4, students developed an idea for something to make using materials. They decided on the quantity of materials needed and the price, then presented their "business plan" to the bank and were approved (or sent to re-evaluate and then approved) for a small business loan to make their articles to sell. They purchased their materials and created their products. Thursday morning we had the market with all of the third grade in which the students sold their wares. We then reflected on the whole process. It was a very interesting experience for all.

Read alouds: Money Bunny, The Berenstain Bears Trouble With Money

In ICT - practicing typing using Mavis Beacon, Mathletics, creating signs for their shops