This week the students researched the polar, temperate, dry, and tropical climates. After reading about their chosen climate, students took notes, then taught what they had learned to the others students. The next day the students read sentences from the reading and sorted which statement went with which climate. We discussed the changes in weather in all 4 climates and predicted what kinds of weather patterns we would find in each climate. We are now ready to start measuring weather and finding out what weather elements we can measure and what instruments we need to measure.
In Maths students are working hard in their math stations. Data and graphs, patterns and numbers are the skills we are building on during our math stations. IXL practice for this unit is D1-3, and R1-8. Please don’t worry if your child is struggling with IXL R, it is very language heavy and we are still in the process of learning about graphs. The majority of our data and graphing activities for this unit will be hands on, and IXL R is just for extra practice.
Our writing focus for this unit is about descriptive writing and poetry. We have been writing about weather storms and other weather elements and trying to add lots of descriptive words to our writing. We are learning that we can use descriptive words to write like a scientist and like a poet.
We also celebrated Millie’s and Rawan’s birthday this week by spending the last 20 minutes of the day playing games! We love playing 4 corners!
Happy Halloween and have a great weekend.