Off to Space!

Learning about earth's rotation 

Science held a lot of interest this week as we began our Earth and Space unit. Distinguishing between the words rotate and revolve helped us understand how and why we have day and night and four seasons. As the earth rotates, or spins, different parts of it face the sun- that gives us day and night in 24 hours. As the earth revolves around the sun, or orbits on its axis, we get four seasons within that year. We enjoyed lots of links to books, songs, and videos that helped us learn all about this.

Next week we will explore the moon. Get ready to look up in the sky each evening to observe the changes  the moon!

Imagine a world without cell phones, tablets, or laptops! Our remote learning would be impossible without those inventions, but in social studies we began a unit on Past and Present or Then and Now. Reading books about transportation, lighting, school, and homes long ago certainly make us appreciate all the improvements we have today!

What a change!

In math we began exploring place value by working with 100 charts. How many numbers are in each row, how do we read a 100 chart, what does the digit in the tens place mean...? These were all ideas we worked with. Next week we will continue with place value by using rods and cubes.

Time to count 10s and ones

Poetry was really fun this week as the kids chose a color and used their five senses to write words and phrases that inspired great imagery. It was especially fun to read everybody's poem to the class on our virtual meetings. The format was: Blue looks like, smells like, feels like, tastes like, sounds like... I was as always, very impressed with their writing. So creative and imaginative!

Fairy Tales

The kids are terrific detectives when it comes to identifying features of a fairy tale! Magic, royalty, special numbers, magical characters, a wicked character, and a beginning of Once Upon A Time are examples of what they identified in each one.

We continue to do word work, phonics activities and punctuation activities as well. New sight words and spelling patterns are listed in the tabs above and on google classroom.

It is a busy time on our virtual meets and the kids (and you!) have been so busy diligently completing assignments on google classroom. I am so pleased to see all the books and videos accessed on Epic- many are specifically assigned for your child.

Finally it feels like spring- enjoy the weekend and know that I remain grateful for the dedication and commitment you and your children demonstrate as you navigate this new learning style together!

Have fun,

Mrs. Dagley