Marvelous Monday

The students had a substitute this morning while I met with the representative from our new math program.  I sent home a note about the new program in your child's mail today.  I'm excited about the parts to the program.  Hopefully the student workbooks will arrive tomorrow.  I will be sending home the old math book and students can use it for extra practice. 

Zaher thinks this: Today we go new math books, they're very cool!  They have very nice pictures. 

Last Friday we used our observation skills and compared  the attributes of 2 different types of rocks.  Our classmate Hassan Z. brought back lava rocks from his trip to Hawaii.  They were perfect for practicing observing attributes for our science unit.  Attributes include: size, shape, texture, weight, color.  We used balance scales to compare weight.  

Hassan wrote this for our science lesson:

Today in science we told the difference between a lava rock and a regular rock.  We looked at them with a magnifying glass.  I loved it and so did the class.  The lava rocks were so cool.

In writing, students are working on writing books.  Some students chose to write nonfiction, others chose fiction.  Our focus was punctuation.  We discussed capitals and ending punctuation (Punctuation Takes A Vacation) by reading stories on the topic.  Students are also illustrating  their work.  These stories may become a narrated video later on.  

Elissa writes: Today in writing we learned about periods, exclamation points, question marks, commas, colons and capitalization.  We wrote stories using some of these marks.