We have begun our Informational Writing Unit. Students have chosen a topic, in which they feel they are an expert. We will teach a new lesson each day for the rest of the unit to help students complete their draft booklet. So far they have created a Table of Contents, Headings, and Subtopic Webs. We will turn the subtopic webs into sentences and work on writing paragraphs this week!
Math
We have started Unit 3. This unit covers several different concepts, including capacity, measurement, telling time, and reading/creating various graphs. So far we have reviewed how to use a ruler and have practiced measuring to the nearest quarter inch. We have also reviewed the following measurements of liquid volume: ounce, cup, pint, quart, and gallon. We will be solving many word problems with some of these new vocabulary words in them. Below are two visuals which can be helpful for students to understand capacity equivalencies.
Science
Our new science unit is Light & Heat. We have discussed different examples of light sources and examples of things that do not produce their own light, such as the moon. Ask your child to see his/her Keynote slides he/she created about light sources on his/her iPad. We read an article about the great inventor, Thomas Edison and learned that light travels in a straight path. This concept also helped us understand where to find a shadow depending on where the sun is. For example, if the sun is in front of you, your shadow will be behind you because light travels in a straight line. We also had some fun creating our own shadow puppets.
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