March 22nd, 2012

• In language arts, we continued practicing the strategy of visualizing things in our head while a story is being read.  We also were introduced to identifying the setting of a story.
• In math, we practiced observing and describing likenesses and differences by sorting sea creatures and frogs in a variety of ways.
• In writing, we worked on developing our stories by adding more of a description to what is going on in our story.  We were also introduced to adding adjectives in order to describe a word.
• In science, we focused on making discoveries and observations about wind.  We did a variety of activities to discover how wind works.  For example, we discovered that items that are round, are blown much easier than an object that is flat.  We also discovered that items that are heavier do not move as easily.  In addition, we discovered that the harder the wind, the faster and farther an object might go.
• In community centers, our science center had a variety of different objects that were tested to see if they can be blown.  We had another new center where we had to do some problem solving.  We had a car, tooth pick, tray, and play-doh.  We had to make the car move without touching the car.  Some of the ideas that were tried were: blowing the car, poking it with a toothpick, etc.
• Heart word of the week: little
• Special theme of the week: weather