![]() They made 2 small coil pots which will dry for a week, and then we’ll paint the pottery next week. This ties in with their study of Native Americans, since all tribes made various forms of pottery. The 2nd and 3rd graders learned how to make a clay coil pot in art this week. Some students also worked on there space sonnet while others worked on their Native American Tic -Tac – Toe projects. For writing the class worked in their journals and wrote about their favorite native American group and why. Our grammar review has been working on prepositions and prepositional phrases. This week for spelling we have done lots of activities, the classes particularly enjoying creating word searches and having someone else solve them. We definitely have some poets in our room. If you have time make sure you get a chance to read some of our space poems on the door, the class did a wonderful job with these. ![]() On Friday the class began to do another space art project which you will see next week in the Hall. Thursday we started a lesson on Nicolaus Copernicus and we practiced our poem about space. On Tuesday we took a virtual trip to Mars and we read a trade book on space. We reviewed the Big Bang Theory on Monday and I did a demonstration with the class using a balloon to show how the big bang would have worked. The projects are due on Thursday the 17th and will be part of our culminating Native American day. I will give them some time next week also to work on these in class but the rest of the work should be done at home. Over all the class did wonderful! On Friday the everyone had some time to work on their Tic-Tac-Toe Native American projects. On Thursday we took the assessment and corrected it in class. The class also did a reading packet and answered some questions to help them prepare for the assessment. We played a coupl,e of games, Jeopardy and answer the riddles, to review what we’ve learned so far. We began this week by reviewing our Native American unit. find the number of items in a fraction of a set.read, write, and identify fractions of a set.subtract a like fraction from another like fraction or one whole.add two or three fractions with sums to 1.compare and order fractions using benchmark fractions.review how to show fractions as points or distances on a number line.review how to compare and order fractions.It was so much fun to read with all your very engaged children. Please ask your child about the Alexander story from class. This was an effective method for some to realize they needed to work on their sentence structure. Next week everyone will be asked to look at their own writing. This week for our grammar study we worked with word families, cause and effect, and subjects & predicates. They have a worksheet to accompany this book, which will give them extra practice identifying adjectives and verbs. They should re-read this book until they can read it smoothly and fluently with intonation. This week the students received book #18.
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