Monday January 9th: Spelling, Music, Compare and Contrast

Notices:

Skating tomorrow: Bring a Helmet Please

We are leaving around 120 to make it to the arena and get our skates on by 1:45. Join us if you can.

We began the week with our weekly spelling words

List one: keep, need, beef, feel, seem, feet, peek, deer, weed, peel, leaf, meal, beam, mean, near, meat, team, year, seat, leap (ee and ea words)

List two: frail, maintain, Spain, quail, paint, brain, brake, shame, James, waste, trace, whale, crayon, Norway Friday, holiday, May, subway, spray, maybe (ai, a and ay words)

After spelling the students wrote a compare and contrast paragraph comparing themselves with anyone else in their family. This is a first attempt at this type of paragraph to see how they organize their thoughts. Some just made lists rather than knowing how to organize their ideas into sentences. This week we will work on writing lists of information into interesting sentences. I will re-introduce venn-diagrams to help the students organize their thoughts into likes and dislikes then extend them into sub topics to create sentences.

After recess the students went to music with Mrs. Awalt. They are beginning to learn how to play the recorder. Music was followed by more multiplication practice on the 6 x tables and filling out a partially completed times table chart. Most students have the idea that multiplication is just fast adding but some still don't know their simple times tables which are more memory and practice than math.

After lunch those students not in choir listened to and did a one page report on Carole King whose music is an essential part of America's pop consciousness. Music was followed by group work where the students were give half an hour to finish off their group work from Friday then presented their poster to the class. Some students read their projects, one group rapped theirs and one did a dance. We finished the day with a bonus gym period, while a few students worked on finishing their math times table sheets.

Great day everyone see you all tomorrow.