We are continuing to practice our keyboarding skills through the use of Typing Club and all our friends are very excited about this. A group email including a short video with instructions for getting onto typing club at home was sent home today to all families today. If you did not receive that email, please contact your classroom teacher. Our time for practicing in school is limited so any additional practice at home would be terrific.
Both classes are now beginning "Book Buddies" with Kindergarten classes. Miss Niles' class is buddying with Mrs. Hazen's class. Deb's class is buddying with Ms. Elia's class. This will be a wonderful opportunity for our classes to take on a mentor role with younger students and practice our skills reading aloud to others.
We have continued practicing paragraph writing during Writer's Workshop this week. Next week we will begin a unit focused on informational writing and will begin to use our new skill of writing paragraphs to write our informational pieces of writing. Our first focus will be on teaching others something through our writing.
Both classes have also enjoyed another Hands On Nature lesson about Erosion during the past two weeks. We learned about different kinds of erosion and ways to prevent erosion. We watched a presentation showing land formations all over our country and discussed how those land formations were created. We also enjoyed an interesting puppet show presented by our Hands On Nature parents. Beginning next month students will begin presenting the monthly puppets shows that support topic of learning each month. Many thanks to our Hands On Nature parents for making Hands On Nature an engaging learning experience for us.
During our Forces and Motion Inquiry time we did an investigation about wheel and axil systems and we explored how we can change the motion of wheels rolling down ramps. Ask your child about the pattern of motion for their wheel system.
Have a great weekend,
Deb and Jenn
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