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Here is what we have been up to this week:
RELIGION-This week, we learned about the lives of Jacob and Joseph, and talked about how God has an amazing way of turning our lies and our sin into truth and love. We discussed God’s Laws and His expectations of us, as well as the Good News of the Gospel—that we cannot by ourselves follow God’s Law perfectly, but JESUS did it for us! Because if this, we get to live with him forever! We have such an amazing God! We also began creating “A Book of Blessings.” We discussed how God created this beautiful world and all that is in it for US! We thanked God for each letter of the alphabet, and the blessings that go along with it!
LANGUAGE ARTS- This week, we read another portion of pour novel, Because of Winn Dixie! We met Otis, the owner of the pet store, and Miss Gloria Dump, a neighbor lady, who just needed a friend. We had wonderful discussions about being a good friend, and how to not “judge a book by its cover.” These chapters actually led us into a great discussion about how we should be kind to others, and how to show empathy.
We also discussed cause and effect, and found examples of this in our story. We reviewed how to write complete sentences, making sure it had a noun, verb, and was a complete thought. We have been working on DOL (Daily Oral Language) where we use editing marks to correct sentences that are just a mess! ;) We have done one together and one on our own. You will see these come home this week. Each child graded his or her own as we corrected them as a class. Please continue to urge your child to read those book report books! Thanks!
SPELLING WORDS for the Week of September 12th:
Story: Because of Winn Dixie (Chapters 16-26)
skill, crime, grind, tonight, brick, flight, live, chill, delight, build, ditch, decide, witness, wind, district, inch, sigh, fright, remind, split
Challenge Word: melancholy
MATH- This week, we all worked with the vocabulary words digit, period, and place value. We worked with putting numbers in standard, word, and expanded forms. We also read numbers up through the millions, worked with ordering numbers, and using place value to round. We compared numbers, using greater than, lesser than, and equal to. We put numbers in order from greatest to least, and least to greatest, and we learned how to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000. Please also keep working on rote multiplication at home! Flash cards are always helpful, and here are some great websites: www.multiplication.com and www.timestables.com/games
SCIENCE- We made connections this week! We demonstrated how organisms, population, community, and ecosystem are connected and how living things interact with other living and non-living things in a pond ecosystem.
SPECIAL CLASSES
ART- We learned what a horizon line was and studied some Expressionistic artists. We then drew landscape drawings with a horizon line. We will study primary, secondary, and tertiary colors next week and create color wheels with tempera paint. Then, we will begin painting in our horizon pictures with that Expressionistic style!
MUSIC- Students have been learning how to read music, and how to use different instruments to make "rain and Thunder."
COMPUTER LAB-We finished up our friendly letters and then learned how to log into our accounts at typing.com. The students will learn the “home keys” in keyboarding and will learn how to memorize where the keys are to become more proficient at keyboarding. I hope to have them work in this at least once a week. Each child has his or her own sign-in and password. They are free to practice at home. Please just let me know if you need this information to do so!
P.E.- We worked on simple volleyball skills this week—passing with a partner and passing to a target.
SPANISH- Students have been learning new Spanish games and simple vocabulary.
WRITING-We finished up our Summer Vacation Stories and shared them during Readers' Theatre.
Have a VERY blessed weekend!
Kim
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