This week with our Wonders program we will focus on the Essential Question: How do plants change as they grow? Interesting question with snow on the ground and below freezing temperatures outside!! We will be reading several books about plants and how plants grow. Our phonics focus will be Long Vowel Ii, with the spelling pattern of i_e.
Everyone did a great job last week on their spelling test. Between blends, digraphs, and long vowels the words are getting more difficult. I will be adapting the spelling words for this week. This week’s spelling words will contain three long vowel Aa words (a review from last week) and three long vowel Ii words (the new spelling pattern for this week): made, game, late ride, bike, mine We will be reviewing all of the long vowel words and sight words that our Wonders program has suggested, but your child will only be held responsible for the above six words. Last Friday we had so much fun in Science. Our task…to define and test the simple problem of: Why don’t trees blow down in the wind? Our investigation started with the help of Mr. Bridle, Mrs. L’Heureux, and Mrs. Queen creating the wind that trees would experience in a Tropical Storm. The next question was – could these trees sustain the winds from a hurricane? Now came the time to rethink and possibly change the design of our trees. Mr. Bridle, Mrs. L’Heureux, and Mrs. Queen then created hurricane force winds. Be sure to ask your child about this fun activity and if their tree stayed upright. This week in Science we will investigate shadows, focusing on what is takes to make a stationary object’s shadow move and what this means about the sun’s place in the sky. In Social Studies we will learn about Martin Luther King, Jr. with our Reading Buddies on Friday.
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