UST's Golden Week Break is
Wednesday, May 1 - Monday, May 6.
We will return back to school on Tuesday, May 7th.
Reading
Nonfiction Readers Learn about the World
This week students practiced reading with a partner to help each other learn and remember the important information from the nonfiction books they're reading. We also reviewed our 5 senses and making movies in our minds while we read. We learned that nonfiction readers understand the books they read by imagining themselves in the picture(s)/photograph(s) and thinking, "What do I see, feel, hear, smell, or taste?"
Writing
Expository Writing *How-to paragraph
Students have published their first how-to paragraph and started working on their second expository writing piece. We will complete this Writing unit when we return from Golden Week.
Math
Subtraction Facts to 40
This week we continued working on subtraction with regrouping using numbers to 40. Please continue to practice these subtraction strategies at home. Thank you!
Science
Plants - Variations in Plants
We continued observing our little lawns and wheat seeds this week. Students have been excited to arrive each morning and see how their plants are growing! The class has been drawing pictures to record their observations.
We also reviewed the parts of plants (roots, stem, leaves, flower) and discussed what each part of the plant does. Our class learned that you can identify the type of plant by observing the leaves. We asked, "How many different kinds of plants live in an area of the playground?" We went outside to collect leaf samples, then we returned to class to sort and count the leaves we found. We asked, "Did all of these leaves come from the same kind of plant? How do you know?" We compared our leaves and discussed leaf shape, size, color, patterns, textures, etc. We discovered that we had leaves from 17 different plants!
Grammar
Verbs
We reviewed that some verbs show action, then we learned about present-tense and past-tense verbs.
Present-tense Verb: tells what is happening now
Past-tense Verb: tells what has already happened
*Most past tense verbs end with -ed
We sorted verbs into two groups: present vs. past
Examples:
Present-Tense Verbs play read listen watch sell dance like talk eat run swim buy | Past-Tense Verbs played read listened watched sold danced liked talked ate ran swam bought |
Have a safe and wonderful Golden Week!
- Ms. Allison