January 17th, 2013- Ice Exploration

Upcoming Events:

• Our class will be doing an act in the Hollywood Variety Show on Friday Jan. 1st at 7:00pm.  A note was sent home Monday and today.  More information will continue to come home.  The class is very excited to be performing on the High School stage!
• We will also be putting on a play called, The Mitten on Jan. 8th at 2:30 here at Hollywood.  A note is coming home today.  More information will be coming home to give you additional details.  This play goes along with all of our learning about winter and the skill of retelling stories.

Highlights from the Week:

• In language arts we practiced making predictions and checking to see if our predictions are correct.  We also worked on recognizing the structure of a book: ABC book, 123 book, book with a pattern, book with a beginning, middle, end, etc.  We have also been practicing with some rhyming.
• In writing, we wrote a story about what a snowman does a night, which was inspired by the story, Snowmen At Night.  While writing this, we worked on adding details to our words by adding where or when the snowman did the activity.
• In math, we were introduced to a new center called, Beat You to 20.  With this center, we are working on recognizing numbers, counting, comparing quantities, and adding together.
• In science, we continued to learn about ice through experimentation.  We picked some liquids, put them in a freezer overnight, and then checked them to see if they froze.  We discovered that shampoo, hair gel, juice, and paint freeze.  Vegetable oil froze, but melted extremely quick.  Hand sanitizer did not melt at all.  We then recorded what we learning about ice in our individual science books.
• During community centers, we maintained our current centers.  We finally finished painting our "ice blocks" so no we are going to start building with them!