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| Crazy Sock Day |
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| Country Day |
It was a fun spirit-filled week here at Carmel Elementary. We enjoyed dressing up to show our support for CHS Homecoming. Pictures of our class from these spirit days can be found on the "Pictures" tab on our class blog.
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| Homecoming Parade |
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| Working hard at acing our first math test |
This week wasn't just fun spirit days, we also fit in a lot of great learning. My math class did such an impressive job on our first test of the year. We will now move on to Unit 2. Unit 2’s emphasis is on addition and subtraction. There are four main areas of focus:
- To review fact families and number families
- To solve “What’s my Rule?” problems
- To use diagrams to help solve number stories
- To review algorithms for addition and subtraction
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| Narrowing our topics to a 'seed story' |
We worked on narrowing our topic in writing. Ask your child if they can explain to you what a 'seed story' is and why we want to write seed stories. In addition to this, we worked on how to plan our seed story with a beginning, middle, and end. Now that our planners are complete, we will start writing our stories next week.
In reading we have continued to read stories centered around our Unit 1 Big Question: 'How do people help each other?' See if your child can retell the story they read with their small group. They will be retelling it to classmates that read different stories, and they will discuss how each of these books relates to the Big Question.
We wrapped up our geography unit in social studies this week. We also started our science unit on rocks and minerals. My little geologists have been very enthusiastically examining 12 different kinds of rocks this week. We have recorded our observations, and we sorted the rocks by different properties. Next week we will learn how we can classify rocks by how they were formed, and we will also start our work on minerals.
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| Making observations on rocks in science |
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