On Friday, we celebrated Halloween. It was great to see everyone all dressed up in their costumes! We began our day by going the to big field to have a costume parade. When we returned to class, we went through our 'Daily 5' rotations before finishing our pumpkin inquiry. We used a special balance given to us by Mr. Shockley (our high school Maths teacher) to calculate the weight of our pumpkin. Frances had to help us with the set up and calculation, as this type of measurement was new to me. When we came back inside, we boiled our pumpkin seeds, put them on a baking tray and headed up to the kitchen to put them in the oven. We baked them at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. We discussed how Math is all around us and that minutes and degrees are both unit of measurement. We popped back up to our class after this (there was lots of walking up and down stairs), to learn about the parts of a pumpkin. We used a great big picture and labelled the parts. Students took turns coming up and reading them to the class. By the time we finished learning about the parts of a pumpkin, our seeds were ready to eat. We ate our pumpkin seeds together, and when we were finished, we did an 'I Spy' activity looking for and recording words that ended with 'bandit y'. When we returned to school today after the weekend, we spent one last day writing and solving 'Carnival Math stories.' We also played a game where students competed to answer questions involving the addition of 10 more the fastest. During our Language Arts time, we learned about the letter 'e' and how it often makes the vowel before it say it's name. We watched the videos below, the practiced reading words with and without 'magic e.'
After trying this together several times, we got our white boards out and searched the class for 'magic e' words while students worked individually with Miss Soa to practice reading -e controlled vowel words.
During our UOI block, we learned about Johnny Apple seed and the life cycle of an apple. We will begin to follow our lines of inquiry on this topic tomorrow.
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Anna
11/2/2016 09:45:00 am
I like silent e and looking alphablocks videos
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