Weekly Times October 12, 2012

Weekly Times October 12, 2012

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Units of Inquiry
DIG IT - How the World Works
Crystal Experiment - on going
Defining the types of rocks and how they are formed:
Sedimentary - layers
Metamorphic - heat+pressure+time
Igneous - from magma or lava
Edible Rock Cycle
Erosion and Weathering (soil experiment with Ms. Casson)


Language
Spelling – the long i sound
Writing about the weekend and sharing
Spelling sentences, activities, Spelling City
Nouns and Verbs
Self evaluation for target setting
Read alouds: Magic School Bus: Voyage to the Volcano, Magis School Bus: Inside the Earth

Maths
Addition of numbers that cross the tens boundary
Hundred Bonds and near hundred bonds (26 + _____ = 100) using a hundred square
Subtraction - counting on or back, regrouping by borrowing (done with counters- units, tens, hundreds) - to be continued next week
Mathletics - review of place value skills, addition

ANNOUNCEMENTS/NOTICES 

Target Setting Conference on Friday, October 19, 2012 - Please be sure that you have signed up for a time at https://ambritparents.pbworks.com/w/page/59697718/3B.  I look forward to seeing you!

• Weekend Assignments:  - 

1. Reading Log - Please read aloud with your child for 15 minutes - see letter in the LOG - children should have logged some reading at least 5 times this week with two being their banded books aloud to an adult
2. Reading JOURNAL - students write a letter to me using three sentence starters - please see journal for further explanation
3. Spelling - Look Cover Say Write Check to review for the spelling quiz

Erosion Video (best without sound)

Our sedimentary rocks are becoming metamorphic with heat and pressure and time.

Our metamorphic rock is being melted into magma.

Looking more like magma.

Cooling magma becomes an igneous rock

Eating our igneous "rock"

Illustrations of the demonstration

Erosion with and without plants