We started working on rounding in Math today. We practiced rounding to the nearest ten, and tomorrow we'll work on rounding to the nearest hundred as well. I made two posters to help the students remember when to round down and when to round up. One poster is of a hill with a car and the numbers 0 to 4 on one side and 5 to 9 on the other side. The other poster is of a vine with these two rhymes: 0 to 4, stay on the floor, 5 to 9, climb the vine.
This afternoon, we went over the elements of nonfiction: sections, headings, photographs, and captions. The students started reading The Olympic Games: Where Heroes are Made. We discussed some ways that we could revise our personal narratives to make them better. Tomorrow, the students will start revising them.
Last week, we went over subjects and predicates. Today, I introduced compound subjects and compound predicates. Today was also the first day we started our Plant Growth and Development kit in Science! The students wrote in their journals things they know about plants and questions they have about them. Next, I gave each student a lima bean seed and a hand lens. They wrote down observations and drawings of their seeds in their journals and then put the seeds in cups of water to soak overnight.
I would like some help next Tuesday in Science! I am planning to have the students plant their seeds that day, and I found out last year that it takes a lot of prep work and the students need a lot of guidance. Let me know if you would like to come help! It would be great if I could have help come at 1:30 to set up the supplies while the students are at recess and then be there to help the students with the planting.
A reminder that the pumpkin patch field trip is this coming Monday!
Students need to continue working on spelling and memory and read for 20 minutes tonight.
Sounds like a packed day! Keep up the good work!
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