We've had a fabulous week of learning here in Room 17. This week in math, we continued our work with story problems in a new way. Mrs. Jensvold visited our classroom this week and taught us about a different way to show math thinking- graffiti boards! This looks like a problem up on a piece of chart paper and students with colorful markers solving these problems, reading one other's work and leaving feedback. We then used these graffiti boards to practice telling the difference between put together (or how many in all) and comparing problems (or how many more/fewer). Then, we used these strategies to solve stories problems that our classmates had written. Here is our work!
This week, we were also very lucky to have Mr. Eric von Wettberg in to our school to teach us even more about plants and pollination. Eric taught us about roots of plants and how different components of soil support the growth of plants. We found nodules on the end of roots and learned that these nodules help to deliver nutrients that plants need. Here is our exploration of plants.
We ended our week with a field trip to the UVM Horticultural Farm. This farm produces fruit that feeds our own community! During this field trip, we were able to watch bees pollinating apple blossoms and then got a close up view of both live and pinned bees. We even got to see a real live queen bumble bee! It was a great day to be outside seeing the real life power of pollinators.
Save the Date!
We will be having our end-of-the-year writing celebration 30 minutes before the 2nd grade school picnic day- Tuesday June 4th from 12:15-12:45pm. We welcome all family members to join us and read our fabulous work!
Other Things to Ask Your Child About:
- Middle School Jazz Concert
- Our nonfiction flip books
- Our last week of word study
- George Brown, Class Clown
- Our new science stations: Busy, Buzzy Bees & Moving On
Have a wonderful long weekend!
Kelly
No comments:
Post a Comment