The students in room 119 had a fun, short week! On Tuesday we did a Valentine's day craft, listened to some music and discussed ways that we have shown HEART here at Ken Taylor this year. I am going to start keeping track of students who get "caught" showing the HEART values and other students can also nominate their peers for being helpful, accepting, empathetic responsible and truthful.
For Science, we used our senses to describe our basil, dill and parsley plants. We even used our sense of taste today! Some of the students liked the taste of the plants while others did NOT!
We then drew diagrams of our plants, with labels, and wrote some describing words to explain the taste. Ask your child which plant tasted the best!
For literacy, we have been working on a new wall story. This week it was 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carl. Our book, of course, is illustrated by us! We read it every day and find sight words, new vocabulary, patterns and punctuation.
We are using the pattern in this book to write a story of our own. Each student picked an animal and then followed the pattern of the story to create their own, sometimes silly story! We are going to do some research next week about our animals and find out what sorts of things they like to eat. The vocabulary we are focusing on with this activity is the days of the week, numbers words and some tough words like 'through' and 'hungry'. This also ties into our science units of the senses and our upcoming unit, the Needs of Plants and Animals. Ask your child which animal they are writing about!
Enjoy your long weekend with your families and I will see you all On Tuesday, February 21st when classes resume!
~Ms. Carstairs
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