Weekly Times March 8, 2013
Headlines
Units of Inquiry
EARN, SPEND, SAVE, GIVE - How We Organize Ourselves
Mr. Mullane's talk about the charities that Ambrit supports - students choosing where to donate the money they had chosen to give
HOME SWEET HOME- Sharing the Planet
Making shelters with materials available
Collecting Vocabulary about homes, materials, parts of the home, people of the home
World map with climate zones
See Think Wonder with pictures of different homes around the world
Reading - what life is like in different climate zones - "Expedition Zero" and "Expedition 25" (degrees Latitude)
Language
Spelling - compound words, prefixes un- meaning not and re- meaning again
Writing - Desert Island stories, introduction to diaries
Reading - see above
Read alouds: Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
Typing practice on Thursdays for half an hour
Peer Leader -
Sharing videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90pIXbNzT-M
Buddies-
Baseball with our buddies
Maths
Geometry -
- perimeter
- tetrominoes
- area
Mad Math - quick check of facts
Ongoing work with multiplication, division, 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 - this week it is the same letter for everyone, printed out and pasted in with questions to answer
- Measuring perimeter around the house
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| Baseball with Buddies |
Shelters can be difficult to construct with the materials available!
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| Tetrominoes |
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