This week in our Wonders program we will focus on the Essential Question: How is life different than it was long ago? We can’t wait to hear what your children think “long ago” means. How are schools different? Transportation? Food? We will be heading to the New Boston Historical Society on Thursday. What was life like in New Boston long ago? We can’t wait to find out.
Our phonics focus will be Long Vowel Oo and Long Vowel Uu, with the following spelling words: hope, nose, note, rope, cute, cube Sight Words: ago, people We continue to do a lot of writing in class with a focus on generating ideas, organization our ideas so they have a beginning, a middle, an ending, and adding wonderful words to help describe our writing and make it more exciting. Last week we learned a new type of writing – Research/Informative Text. Using some of the characters from last week’s folktale story (The Mitten by Jan Brett) your child chose one of the following animals to research: Red Fox Badger Hedgehog Black Bear Snowshoe Rabbit Using articles from PebbleGo to guide them, details were written down about their habitat, food, life cycle, or some fun and interesting facts. We were so impressed with these reports. We will be putting these up on our bulletin board outside our classroom door for the entire school to enjoy. Shadows was the perfect science investigation this week. Before we began our investigation some of our wondering questions were: Why are shadows black? How are shadows made? Why do shadows follow us? Why don’t shadows appear? Do shadows have shadows? Using Mystery Science’s guiding question: “Could a statue’s shadow move?” we began our investigation with shadows. We discovered that the sun had a direct impact on the shadow and that the sun traveling across the sky will make it look like a shadow is moving. This investigation then led us to talk about Groundhog Day and the “superstition” that surrounded this event. Your child created a picture of the groundhog looking at his shadow. This morning it was announced that Phil did not see his shadow and he predicts an early Spring!
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