ask me about Tuesday, february 6, 2024

So far this week, we have been talking about the food groups.  We know it's important to include all the food groups in our diets, so we are learning about the different choices we have as we think about what we would like to eat.  We learned that vegetables are a root, stem or leaf that is eaten, and fruits are from flowering plants that grow into a fruit that encloses or has seeds.  Interesting!
We have been working on writing our information text about groundhogs.  We are keeping it simple, and I am modeling before they write to try and reinforce using a capital at the beginning of a sentence, spaces between words, and punctuation at the end of a sentence.  That is on top of finger stretching unknown words, which means we are gently pounding syllables to help break up the word so we can finger stretch.  The children also need to determine the words they are going to use to share their information.  That's a lot of work for these little people who have been on Earth five or six years!  The indicators for writing include the words "with adult help" so teachers do model the process for the students.  What the children need to do independently though is the mechanics of writing; putting spaces between their words, using upper and lower case letters appropriately, and using simple punctuation.  We will work on this in writing stories and texts, and for practice.
In Social Studies we are learning about Economics.  We read a great book called Wants Vs. Needs Vs. Robots.  We built on what we learned in our Benchmark reading about what plants and animals need to survive.  We then found out that robots, in this book, need four things.  Ask me to tell you the four things these robots needed.  One robot wanted other things and traded things they needed to survive.  Ask me to tell you about what happened and what better trades the robot made at the end of the story.

Have a nice evening!
​Miss Wolfe