Holiday Books 1,000 yen To help the students celebrate the holiday season G1A's class parents will be ordering holiday books for our class. These books will be wrapped and given to the students when Santa visits UST in December. As usual, the books are funded by the parents. The cost is ¥1,000 per child. When you have a moment, please send ¥1,000 to school in an envelope with your child's name on it. Thank you for your help! |
Readers Build Good Habits - Solving Hard Words
During reading this week, we read the story The Little Engine That Could and talked about the word persistence. Students learned that readers don't give up when solving tricky words. They try and try again!
We continued learning new word solving strategies to help us solve hard words. One new strategy is to write the hard word to help us figure out how to say it. Students used post-it notes to practice this during independent reading time, then shared which words they wrote down while reading.
Small Moment Stories
At the beginning of the week our class reviewed the special things authors do that we can try in our own writing.
Students took time rereading their stories and using the checklist to help them correct their writing, one page at a time. I reminded the class that it's important that they can read their own writing and their friends can read most of their writing without their help.
After editing, each student thought about which story they would like to publish. Our next step as writers will be making a neat, final copy of one story to read to the class next week during our writing celebration.
Shapes
This week students reviewed flat shapes and practiced sorting shapes in different ways.
Sorting shapes:
- sort by color
- sort by shape
- sort by size
- sort by number of sides
- sort by number of corners
Math Vocabulary
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Air and Weather
During science this week our class learned that scientists keep a notebook to write about their science discoveries. Each student set up their own science notebook by numbering the first 10 pages. We reviewed what we learned about air last week, then students drew pictures and wrote about their observations in their notebooks to answer the question, "What can air do?" Students shared their work with their table group.
How does a parachute interact with air?
Our next investigation was an engineering challenge. Each student built their own parachute using a napkin, string, dot stickers, and a paper clip. I asked the class, "Do you think this is a good parachute design? How can we find out?" We tested our parachutes inside the classroom and shared our observations:
What happened when you flew your parachute?
When I fly my parachute, it __________.
What made the parachute float down so slowly?
The parachute floated down slowly because ___________.
Where is the air?
The air is ____________.
Next week we will take our parachutes to Tomigaya park to see what happens when we test them outdoors.
- Ms. Allison