Each Friday we have Book Buddies. All 1-3 PALs are paired with a 4/5 PAL in order to have the chance to share books together. Students spend time reading and talking about favorite books. It's a great opportunity for the 4/5s to show leadership and for the 1-3s to get to know an older student. Students are also working with their book buddies during our monthly workshops.
Our first science unit is called Structures of Life. We've started out by working with seeds. Students made estimates of how many seeds they thought were in various fruits. Those fruits included cantaloupes, peppers, watermelons, tomatoes and cucumbers. They then counted the seeds and wrote down properties of their seeds. Ask your child which fruit seeds their table group counted and how many there were. The vocabulary words we worked on include property, fruit and seed. Ask your child to name some properties of certain foods they eat in the next few days. Next week we will be sprouting seeds and recording the changes the various seeds go through over a span of time.
Our beginning of the year was filled with many homeroom activities which we feel are important to setting the tone for the year. The pictures include a mixture of community building activities that helped build relationships and get the year started on a positive note. You may see us building a class puzzle, working on math using cubes and other manipulatives, braiding bag tags, designing and creating shoes, getting our feet painted in order to count the number of feet, and toes in our rooms to name a few.
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