Dear Parents
We are so excited to be welcoming weather. We connect this to our learning about the season changes as well as our living systems topics in science.
Writing
This week we have been combining our focus on seasonal changes and nonfiction writing to have students begin to think about how we dress and the activities we do change as we are beginning to experience more spring-like weather. We brainstormed ideas as a class connected to clothing choices and recreational activities that we do this time of year. Students record their own ideas in their visual journals. We then used this to guide our writing to write a focused piece of writing connecting to this topic.
Learning Intentions:
I can create messages that are for a specific purpose
I can combine ideas in an order that makes sense to create sentences.
I can record facts in different ways.
I can identify seasonal Changes that may affect a variety of choices and activities, such as:
Clothing choices
Recreational activities
Science
In Science, we began our unit on Living Systems. We learned about what the rules are for things that are living.
They need energy (food, water, sunlight)
They grow and change
They reproduce (make more of themselves)
Respond to the world around them
We also read and learned about plants and animals. We then went outside and looked for different plants and animals and recorded it in our visual journals. We visited our Class Tree as well and were excited to notice that is has developed its blossoms. We look forward to watching its spring changes in the next week.
Wellness/Literacy
As a part of our time in Maker on Fridays, we like to take time to reflect on our work, what worked well, what challenges we had, and how we resolved them. As a connection to our chicks hatching last week, students were asked to build a chicken-coop that would protect the chickens and provide them with all the things they would need to survive. Although a building task, Maker provides students the opportunity to work together in a collaborative way.
Learning Intentions:
Building relationships with people, regardless of skill or ability
Personal characteristics can describe an individual’s strengths and abilities.
Personal characteristics can be unique or shared among individuals and groups.
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