Classroom update

It's been a busy last few weeks here in the classroom, but we managed to squeeze in a bit of a short update here to keep everyone up to speed of what's been going on with the Red Snails.  

We got a new group of spelling words for the first week.  This week's words are:

1.  horse

2.  birds

3.  since

4.  ever

5.  heaven

6.  satin

7.  associative

8.  community

9.  organism

10.  ascend

11.  arrest

12.  problem

13.  complete

14.  piece

15.  told

16.  penguin

17.  commutative

18.    ecosystem

19.  reproduce

20.  arena

21.  room

22.  new

23.  listen

24.  children

25.  long

Trouble words from last week:

1.  early

2.  neutral

3.  abundant

4.  canopy

5.  nutrients

6.  resist

7.  curtain

New vocabulary words for this week are:

1.  Arrest:  To hold or capture.

2.  Ascend:  To go up or climb higher.

3.  Arena:  Center stage or platform.

For part of the science lesson this week, we learned about Venn Diagrams.  You can pick up a worksheet for Venn Diagrams HERE!

We read two more chapters in The Reptile Room this week.  Things are really getting interesting with the orphans now.  You can keep up with what book we are on from month to month HERE!

Another part of our science lesson this week was learning, observing, and recording how ants work and function within an ant farm.  There were will be more weeks of this, but placing them in their ant farm and observing them, and recording the data is this week's lesson.   (Worksheets we used this week)

You can pick this worksheet up HERE!

You can pick this worksheet up HERE!

For history, we covered facts about George Washington and learned some interesting things about him.  (Worksheets used this week)

Grab this worksheet HERE!

Grab this worksheet HERE!

For a nice change of pace from school work and activities, we decided to treat Skylar to a trip to the LEGO store to pick up a few LEGOs for his collection.  It was a nice break from work, and school for all of us.  You can read more about his LEGO adventures HERE!

This week we took a test on the trouble words from last week and then got a new list of spelling words.

After the test on the trouble words the new list was given and the missed words were added back in for another week.

The words for this week are:

1. associative
2. community
3. organism
4. neutral
5. nutrients
6. bridal
7. dental
8. gerbil
9. nasal
10. postal
11. longer
12. rain forest
13. population
14. inverse
15. climate
16. hemisphere
17. taiga
18. legos
19. top
20. ship
21. across
22. today
23. during
24. short
25. better
26. best 
27. however
28. low

We also worked on Homophones......(Words that sound the same, but have different meanings and spellings)

We also got three more new vocabulary words for this week.

• Assist:  To help.

• Attempt:  To try.

• Attentive:  Full focus, or alert.

We read two more chapters in The Reptile Room, only leaves two more to go before the book is finished.  You can follow along with our reading books HERE!

In science last week we observed the ants in the ant farm, also looked at the inside of the ant hill and how the ants operate.  We also learned the basic of an ant.  This week we dig a bit deeper into the ants and learned a bit more details with their habitat and their bodies.  (Worksheets used this week)

Grab this worksheet HERE!

Along with ants this week for science, we also covered the facts about Venus.

For math this week we went over rounding to certain place values.  We've been working with rounding larger numbers to the 100s place.

We also went to see the Easter bunny during this time as well.

We also colored some large Easter eggs just for fun.

Stay tuned for more updates from the Red Snail Classroom.