Classroom Update (January 13-January 24)

Here is another two -week update from the Red Snail Classroom!


Monday (January 13, 2014)

• Spelling: New Spelling list was given.  This week's spelling words were:

1. taller
2. tallest
3. smarter
4. smartest
5. fresher
6. freshest
7. smaller
8. smallest
9. happier
10. happiest
11. paragraph
12. lion
13. oil
14. men
15. biggest
16. funniest
17. longest
18. largest
19. brightest
20. widest
21. bigger
22. big
23. alert
24. analyze
25. ancestor
26. compensation (trouble word from last week)

• Vocabulary:  We got three new words for the vocabulary this week, which are:

1.  Alert:  Warning
2.  Analyze:  Look something over
3.  Ancestor:  Family from the past.

• Reading:

We read another chapter in "The Reptile Room" from "A Series of Unfortunate Events."  You can snag your own copy of the book HERE, to keep up with the Red Snail Reading List.  You can also see what books we are on in the classroom by visiting the top tab under "Red Snail Reading List."

• Writing:  For writing this week we worked on our cursive handwriting and also story prompts.
We also worked on the usage of have, has, and had.  We also touched a little on silent consonants with the words either ending, starting, or have the letters (gh, k, w, n, g, b, and p) in them.

• Art:  For art this week we colored our paddles to use in P.E.  Skylar's favorite color is red, so of course the paddles are now red.  Look for this later in the week to be used with P.E.

Tuesday (January 14, 2014):

• Science:  In Science we are starting to break down the planets.  We are currently on Mercury and learned a lot of fun facts about the planet as well as the phases of the moon.

• Social Studies/Geography:  We are currently learning about South American animals and Skylar chose the Toucan to do his research on.  More on this next week.

• History:  We studied a lot about Richard Nixon this week.  We started on him last week and have now finished up with everything we need to learn about him.  He was a very interesting man, that's for sure.

• Music:  For music this week, we learned about Kazoos and how infamous they are.  Skylar played a few notes on his gold Kazoo and we had a lot of fun with it.

You can snag a worksheet on how to play the kazoo HERE!

Wednesday (January 15, 2014)

• Math:  In Math we went over more multiplication and division problems up to 12.  Here are the ones we had this week:

• 9x6
• 4x9
• 7x4
• 11x4
• 8x3
• 4x5
• 6x8
• 5x6
• 8x4
• 6x3

For division the problems we had this week are:

• 6 ÷ 12
• 9 ÷ 99
• 7 ÷ 56
• 7 ÷ 77
• 7 ÷ 42

• Probability and Data:

Since we've had quite a foggy time here in the Valley, I possed a question to Skylar of:  What is the probability of it being foggy tomorrow?  He answered with 100% probability, and boy was he right on the money.

Source

• P.E.:  For P.E. we used the painted paddles and played badminton a little with them.  It was fun for Skylar to use something he was able to paint in class for fun with the P.E. time.

*(Library Day)*

Thursday (January 16, 2014)

*Week Review*

We did some more review on the trouble math problems and rounding for the test on Friday.

• Cooking:  Skylar opted to get pizza for cooking class and that went over with everyone just fine!

Friday (January 17, 2014)

*TEST DAY*

• Gardening:  We have started adding gardening to our plans for Friday.  This will have more added to this category as the season moves forward.

Monday (January 20, 2014)

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday-No School

We took the time on Monday to talk about Martin Luther King, Jr. and we did some fun projects to celebrate him and understand him.

You can snag the worksheets we used HERE, HERE, HERE, and the color sheet HERE!

And snag the paper-doll printable HERE!






Tuesday (January 21, 2014)

• Spelling: Since Monday was a holiday, we gained new spelling words on Tuesday.  This week's spelling words were:

1. usually
2. didn't
3. friends
4. easy
5. heard
6. order
7. red
8. door
9. sure
10. become
11. muffin
12. pumpkin
13. apron
14. cannon
15. poison
16. landform
17. prime
18. composite
19. wildfire
20. tropical
21. deposit
22. bully
23. annual
24. apparent
25. appropriate
26. compensation

• Vocabulary:  This week's vocabulary words were:

• Annual (yearly)
• Apparent (clearly understood)
• Appropriate (what is acceptable)

• Reading:  We are on chapter six of "The Reptile Room" in the book "A Series of Unfortunate Events."

• Writing:  In writing this week we practiced handwriting skills with cursive letters.  We also did more writing prompts.  Week after week Skylar seems to be getting a bit more creative with these.  It's always fun to read the stories he comes up with each week.

• Art:  For art this week we did a Dixie Cup light string.  I've been seeing these all over Pinterest lately and I finally had a reason to make one.  Skylar had a blast helping me do it and it brought a bit more character to our little classroom.  What do you think?

• Science:  In Science we moved on to the next planet in line, Venus this week.  We also talked about Reference books and the information they supply in researching a certain topic.

• Social Studies/Geography:  For social studies we talked about South American and the toucan.  We also talked about the foods that come from South America.

We also covered some facts about Texas for our geography place of interest.

• History:  In history, we started on George Washington this week.

• Music: - Skylar learned to play the Kazoo this week.

You can snag this printout HERE!

Wednesday (January 22, 2014)

• Math:  For math this week, we are still going over long subtraction and rounding with different place values.  We will cover this a bit more in the weeks to come, as well.

• Probability and Data:  -

• P.E.: -

*(Library Day)*

Thursday (January 23, 2014)

*Week Review*

• Cooking: -

Friday (January 24, 2014)

*TEST DAY*

• Gardening: -

Stay tuned for another two week update in the following weeks to come.