Weekly Times January 25

Weekly Times 

January 21-25, 2013

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Welcome to our new students Aidan and Nefeli!

Units of Inquiry
EARN, SPEND, SAVE, GIVE - How We Organize Ourselves
Class Economy with Single Subject Sterling - salary paid for going to classes
Class Economy with "salary" and "bills" in Euro as well as converting Single Subject Sterling to Euro
Class Shops - selling, buying and reflecting on the process
"Saving for a Rainy Day" - "problem" with the electricity and students had to "pay" to fix this unexpected problem - reflection and discussion
"Caine's Arcade" - video and discussion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul9c-4dX4Hk
"Saturday Sancocho" - story and activity - lesson on trade and bartering


Language
Spelling - the vowel suffixes -ing and -ed
Grammar - Antonyms
Writing - editing practice with our Reading Journal letters
Read alouds: Berenstein Bears Trouble with Money, Saturday Sancocho
Typing practice on Thursdays for half an hour

Peer Leader - 
Taling about feelings-angry/annoyed


Maths
Making change at the shops
Adding up and converting with money
Recognizing coin equivalencies
Measuring with grams and kilograms

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 - letter as usual

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January 14-18, 2013

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Units of Inquiry
EARN, SPEND, SAVE, GIVE - How We Organize Ourselves
Class Economy with Single Subject Sterling - salary paid for going to classes
Class Economy with "salary" and "bills" in Euro as well as converting Single Subject Sterling to Euro
Class Shops - selling, buying and reflecting on the process

Language
Spelling - Plurals - adding -es after s, o, x, ch, sh and z
Grammar - Antonyms
Writing - editing practice and paragraph writing
Read alouds: Lulu and the Brontosaurus, Berenstein Bears Trouble with Money
Typing practice on Thursdays for half an hour

Peer Leader - 
Taling about feelings-angry/annoyed


Maths
Making change at the shops
Adding up and converting with money
Writing our own money problems
More addition and subtraction

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 - letter as usual

OUR SHOPS

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January 8-11, 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Units of Inquiry
STORY OF EARTH- Where We Are in Place and Time
Last Presentations of final project
Reflection

EARN, SPEND, SAVE, GIVE - How We Organize Ourselves
Introduction of Class Economy with Single Subject Sterling - salary paid for going to classes
Making Fruit Salad - trading to get what we need
Gathering Prior Knowledge

Language
Spelling - contractions
Grammar - Apostrophes for possession and contractions
Writing - Vacation with false facts
Guided Reading Groups - Saving the Stegosaurus or Dinosaurs Before Dark, finishing up
Read alouds: Lulu and the Brontosaurus

Peer Leader - 
Talk about vacations and feelings


Maths
Multiplication - mad multiplication practice
Money - making 2 euro game
Next week:
More addition and subtraction

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
•  Book Review - Instead of a letter in their reading journals, students are asked to fill out the book review form so that we can share about books we have been reading and make suggestions to one another