This week we had a lot of fun together learning. Students were excited to share what they learned during Literacy, Math, Writing, Social Studies, and Specials. We also earned many stars this week! I can't believe how well we are working together as a team. Students have been really responsive to meeting our challenge to raise their hands ONCE they hear the chime in our room. Once the chime rings, students stop what they are doing, raise their hand, and put their eyes on the teacher. We also have been working on talking about respecting all students and differences. We did something fun this week too during morning meeting. Instead of just asking friends "what's the news" to see what is going on in their lives we asked something specific. We asked "what's your highlight?" This allowed students to specifically share ONE things that was really great this week. A few student's shared: -This week we earned stars in Art and Music. . . -This week I liked what we did in Art. (drawing using scaled colors and building structures) Even on one of our rain days we didn't lose our HOPE. We decided to take a few of the kids outside that really wanted to go out during recess. The others stayed inside to play board games and other activities. It was awesome to see the boys create their own football game and include all of their peers! They were so happy to enjoy the rain even though some others may have thought it was too wet to have fun! The girls that went outside made up their own game too. It looks like they had some sort of spinning activity! I'll have to check in with them to see if there's a specific name for this game. . . We saw the glass half full and not half empty. . . We had a blast outside during this "typical" gloomy day. In Literacy/Word Work, we learned our first UPPERCASE cursive letters. Students thought it was interesting that some uppercase letters do require you to lift your pen. The letters H being one of these letters! Reading groups have also been continuing. Learning about the Wampanoag's has been really fun for the students. Many have commented about how different it was for the kids back then. "I can't believe the boys had to hunt when they were so young. .. " As mentioned from one of our books titled "The Wampanoag" by Kevin Cunningham and Peter Benoit (A true Scholastic book) it states, "Boys learned to hunt and fish at a young age. Around age two, they began to shoot a bow" . . . "During the summer, boys were sent to camp in the maize fields to keep the birds away and pull weeds." Page 24. During Math, students began to learn more about perimeter and area. Finding the perimeter means to measure around the outside. Finding the area means to measure how much space it being taken up on the inside of an object or space. Here's a great visual on what the differences between the two are: During Social Studies, students also drew pictures of what the Wampanoag's Wetu homes looked like vs. what their homes look like now. Wetu's were a seasonal home for the Wampanoag's . These homes were dome shaped buildings common in this area of the Northeast. In writing, we planned our writing for our informational pieces. Students chose to write about topics they feel they are interested about. Some students decided to write about things such as football or soccer. Others decided to write about their passion to draw or sketch. Sorting these ideas into categories was our challenge this week.
This Friday was also the 100th day of school! How exciting. Students thought it was so much fun to complete a few activities creating new words using phrases such as "ONE HUNDREDTH DAY."
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