Our Week in Review

This was a busy week in room 24!  We began the week with our Reading portion of the MCAS.  Mrs. Merten was very proud of us!  We all arrived to school on time, and worked hard!  There is no more MCAS testing until the math portion in May.

In Reading, Miss Boulay began reading Love that Dog, by Sharon Creech with our class.  We loved learning about Jack and how he grew to LOVE poetry.  We'll be reading Hate that Cat, the sequel, also by Sharon Creech next week, and will be writing some poetry inspired by some of the poets in these books.  While reading these books, we were able to watch the main characters, Jack and Miss Stretchberry, change.  We discussed how the characters changed throughout the school year, and the reasons we thought they were changing.  

In Math, we have been working on elapsed time ~ how to determine how much time has passed for a given event.  We have discussed ways to solve these problems, including creating a number line.  If you notice your child using a number line while working on these types of problems, that is what we've done here at school!  Today we worked in centers to solve real world problems about the passing of time.  These are a challenge, but the children are doing a great job with them.  We will have an assessment of this topic, with a review of graphing, toward the end of next week (tentatively scheduled for Thursday).

We have continued on our trip throughout the US with the study of the Midwest.  We will be learning about the geography/climate of this region, along with important people, natural resources, and Native Americans.  We also expect a visit from Mrs. Silvia, our anthropologist in residence from the Haffenreffer Museum, after vacation.

In Science, we continue to study the weather.  We will begin learning about WILD WEATHER next week.  This topic seems to be the most exciting for the children. We will use what we've learned throughout this unit to learn about hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes, and thunder storms.