We had a GREAT Penguin Party to celebrate the end of our study of penguins! The kids got a black and white placemat that they used to make their picture of a penguin from Roll A Penguin game. They got to walk with their egg and see who could get to the finish line first. They heard us all the way to the office!!! We had black and white plates ane napkins, and the kids and I wore black and white. The penguin cake came from Scorch and Terri at the DQ. Thanks so much Scorch and Terri!! It was terrific! They also had goldfish crackers, swedish fish, and oreo cookies. They watched March of the Penguins which Mathew and Marques brought in for us. I think it's something the kids will remember. They each read their penguin reports to the class so everyone could learn a little about the penguin they researched.
They are now working on their research papers for our Reading-Writing Workshop. This report is on an animal of their choosing. For this report they will need to write sentences/paragraphs rather than list like they did for the penguin reports.
Spelling words for this week go with the story "ANT". They are: king, thank, hand, sing, send, think, bring, bang, end, thing, and the challenge words are grand and young. These go with our phonics skill of final consonant clusters nd, net, mp, ng, nk. We'll also do base words and enings, -s, -es, -ies. For English, we'll study possessive nouns.
We are learning TIME in Math, although we need more practice on MONEY. I'll try and do more practice with money in addition to time. They need to learn how to read an analog clock even though most watches and alarm clocks are digital.
Have a good day!
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