ELA: This week the students focused on descriptive writing. They each wrote a descriptive writing piece about their favorite animal. In grammar this week the student focused on learning about verbs. In reading the students focused on learning more details about characters; specifically character evolution. In groups the children were given different books and they discussed and wrote about how the characters changed from beginning to end. For show and tell we discussed details about our favorite characters.
Science:
This week in science we continued to focus on grouping animals. The students practice sorting pictures of animals as well as drawing and writing about the different types of animals. We also looked at different types of careers people can have in the field of science.
Social Studies:
This week we reviewed the concepts of producing and consuming. The students had to think of something that they would like to produce in they had their own shop. They had a lot of creative ideas such as a salami shop and a chocolate shop. This week we also had a chance to start looking at charts and graphs in relation to social studies.