Last Friday Reyna came in to do another wonderful architecture lesson with the class. She taught the students about ancient Greece and the Parthenon. The students learned about how the Greeks would build grand structures that were open and would use columns as the support systems instead of walls. The class learned about the three types of columns that the Greek architects used; doric, ionic, and corinthean. Each student was then assigned to create two columns of their own that will eventually support our class Parthenon.
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| Ethan & Issac displaying their Ionic columns |
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| Greek Columns |
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| The Parthenon in Greece |
This week the class is learning about suffixes. We are concentrating on the suffix -ly and the suffix -ful. Have your children tell you about words that have these suffixes. At morning meeting this morning, the students were coming up with words that had both -ly and -ful in one word. They were also finding words that had our prefixes from last week and the suffixes from this week. For example unfriendly, beautifully, unuseful, and many other words were thrown out.
This weeks spelling words are:
nicely, friendly, quickly, softly, bravely, careful, hopeful, colorful, thankful, and useful
Please practice these words at home with you children and work together to see how many words you can think of that have the suffixes -ly and -ful.
The class is in need of spiral notebooks. The students use their spiral notebooks everyday for writing and many students are out of pages (or will soon be out of pages). Please send a new spiral notebook to school with your student this week.
Also, many students no longer have their red, go home folder. If your child has lost theirs please replace it and send it to school with them tomorrow. I send home important notices, calendars, and work that your child has completed in these folders.
In math we are finishing up plane shapes this week and will be moving on to solid figures next week. The students are learning about congruency and lines of symmetry. They are also exploring the school to find shapes in every day objects. The students will also be working on their spatial visualization abilities. The will work on rotating, flipping, and sliding shapes that will help develop their spatial reasoning.
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| Using plane shapes to create other shapes and objects. |
We have an intern from Junior Achievement that will be coming into our class on Wednesdays. She will be working with the students on our classroom economy project and helping them relate what we do in the classroom to the real world. These lessons are designed to provide practical information about businesses and the many occupations found in those businesses in a typical city. There are five lessons and each lesson is about 30 to 45 minutes. I am really looking forward to her time with us & will update you on the lessons as they happen.
Also on Wednesdays, beginning next week, I am going to begin helping the students prepare for the CST or state test that the kiddos will be taking at the end of April. There is a math and language arts component to the test. If you would like to prepare at home I have some test release questions from past years that I can send home with you.
Have a wonderful week & thank you for reading!
Jenn
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