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Show and Tell - Week of November 4th
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Every month, we are inviting parents to UST to read a book to the G1 students. G1A and G1B classes will come together in the shared space to listen to the Mystery Reader read a story.
We are looking for more parents to participate as Mystery Readers during the school year, so please take a moment to click here and sign up for a week/day that works well with your schedule. Thank you!
UST Halloween
Thursday, October 31st
Math
Subtraction Facts to 10
This week students continued to practice solving subtraction story problems. Our class was also introduced to fact families. Students started using related addition and subtraction facts to help solve story problems and number sentences with missing pieces.
Examples:
? - 5 = 3 (missing whole)
8 - ? = 6 (missing part)
Reading
Tackling Trouble
Our class met four more Reading Strategy buddies at the beginning of the week: Flippy Dolphin, Skippy Frog, Tryin' Lion, and Helpful Kangaroo. Reading strategy posters and reading buddies will be hanging up in the classroom library for the rest of the school year.
Students also reviewed how to retell a story across their fingers using words such as first, then, next, after that, and finally.
Writing + Grammar
Narrative Writing - Personal Narrative
Grammar - Capital Letters
This week students worked on publishing their personal narratives. We also reviewed capital letters during Grammar.
When do I need a capital letter?
- the word I
- first word of a sentence - She likes apples.
- specific names (a person's name and title) - Ms. Allison
- special names (places) - Tokyo, Japan
- days of the week - Monday
- months of the year - November
- holidays - Halloween
Students are practicing using capital letters correctly in their writing.
Spelling
Focus: ch, sh, th, wh
This week we had Spelling stations set up during Spelling time. The students worked in small groups to complete picture sorts. They said the name of each picture, then sorted the pictures based on the beginning sound (ch, sh, th, wh, s, h, j).
Science
Sound
Hearing Sounds - What kinds of sounds are easy to identify?
During this investigation, students practiced sound discrimination by listening to the sounds of objects when they're dropped on a hard surface (table). We used drop chambers to identify objects by the properties of their sound. Students were excited to play the Drop Challenge game! During this game, one student dropped one object into the drop chamber. Their partner had to listen to the sound. After hearing the sound, their partner drop in an object he/she thought matched the original object. Next the two students lifted up the drop chamber to find out if the objects were the same.
We also explored tuning forks. We learned that a tuning fork makes sound when it's hit against a wood block, but it's difficult to observe the vibrations. To confirm that the tuning fork vibrates, we tested it in a variety of ways. After hitting it on a wooden block, we touched it to a hanging table-tennis ball and put it in a cup of water. Our conclusion was that the motion of the vibrating tines caused the table-tennis ball to bounce away and the water droplets to fly out of the cup.
To end this investigation, students learned about a tone generator. While the tone generator was on, students touched the speaker cone to observe the vibrations. After that I poured small pieces of coffee onto a lid and placed the lid about 1 cm above the speaker cone so the lid and speaker cone were not touching. When I turned on the tone generator, the students observed the coffee moving. We did the same experiment with salt. We discussed that sound is moving through the air and making the lid vibrate. We reviewed that vibrations cause sound and sound can make objects vibrate. We related this activity to hearing sounds around us, learning that a sound source sends out vibrations and the vibrations enter our ears, making our ear drums vibrate. Students learned that our ears are sound receivers.
Science Vocabulary
observe ears listen ear drum sound receiver sound source | compare tuning fork sound vibrate vibrations hear |
Have a wonderful weekend!
- Ms. Allison