It is so wonderful to be back in the school with all of our students. The kids are enjoying learning with their friends again. Here are the things we have been working on:
In Language Arts we began our unit on Creating Stories. We started our work by exploring storytelling. This week we read three well known fairy tales: The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and the Three Billy Goats Gruff. After reading the stories in books, we began practicing retelling the stories. We then created simple puppets to help us recreate the stories. We are in the process of recording the students' first attempt at telling their story. We will spend then next little while learning what good storytellers do to make their stories interesting to the listeners.
In Math, we are working to help students understand addition and subtraction. We are happy that students were able to show you how the "Math Train" works during their at home learning. This will be an ongoing activity to build our skills. We also explored two open ended math problems and learned how to use a table to help show all our possible answers.
We began our Yoga unit in Phys. Ed. this week. Our work with Yoga will help students develop awareness of their body and breathing. It is also a great way to strengthen our core muscles, improve our balance, and develop our flexibility.
Our Science exploration of Seasonal Changes is our focus right now as we learn about how people and animals cope with Winter. We read a great book, "Over and Under the Snow", and then we created a visual journal page showing people and animals that you can see in winter and then animals that are active or hibernating under the snow where we cannot see them.
Art this week centered around creating through drawing with a variety of materials. We created a mixed media picture of a snowman on a winter night. This was done with oil pastels for the snowman and chalk pastels for the snow, stars, and the night sky. The finished pieces are beautiful!
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