3B Blog: Weekly Times December 14, 2012

Weekly Times

November 29- December 14, 2012

Headlines

Units of Inquiry
STORY OF EARTH- Where We Are in Place and Time

Thinking Journals- writing down our thinking and talking about it
Animal Adaptations - an inquiry into an animal of choice and what makes it specially adapted to its environment
Adaptations song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX8VQIJVpT
Field Trip to the Museo Zoologico - Fossils and the Origins of Life
Major events in prehistory ordering activity
Dinosaur Dig- what it's like to be a paleontologist
Prehistory Scavenger Hunt
The birth of Earth to the first life in oceans ordering activity

Language
Spelling - silent letters, homophones
Writing - myths of how an animal got its special feature (goes along with a study of myths in Library)
Guided Reading Groups - Saving the Stegosaurus or Dinosaurs Before Dark
Read alouds: The Pebble in My Pocket, Evolution

Peer Leader -
Activity about friendships, passing a string and saying what you like about someone
Name activity

Maths
Multiplication - making array cards and playing games with them
Division - dividing arrays in equal groups
Writing our own word problems with things that come in groups and the museum
Solving word problems
Time - telling time on the clock to the minute as well as quarter past, half past and a quarter to the hour
Mathletics

Wonderful Job at the Concert!

ANNOUNCEMENTS/NOTICES

Weekend Assignments: -

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 - as usual
Reading JOURNAL - I have written the same letter to each student asking them to write about the problem/solution as well as a character

Holiday Assignments: -

Earn, Spend, Save, Give - as part of our new unit, we ask that students visit a store and select some items to answer questions about. The sheet will come home and the items do not need to be purchased
Multiplication Facts- Keep practicing your facts! By the end of the year, you should know all of the tables up through 10. If you know them already, work on division or the 12's, 25's or 15's
Reading- Keep reading!