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Here's a peek at our week....
In Math:
- continued learning about geometry
- identified solid figures by their facts or flat surfaces, edges, and vertices
- students identified the plane shapes that form the flat surfaces of solid figures
- students drew polygons (triangles, quadrilaterals, and hexagons) and listed their attributes
- new vocabulary:
- sphere, pyramid, cylinder, cone, cube, rectangular prism, solid figure, flat surface, face, edge, vertex (vertices), plane shape; circle, square, triangle, rectangle, sides, angles, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, polygon
- made shape books to practice their shapes
- read The Greedy Triangle
- used patten blocks to make other shapes
- played a shape muncher game for solid and plane shapes
In Science:
- read 2 Dr. Seuss insect books
- read a BUGS! packet to answer questions
- created a butterfly life cycle plate to learn the four stages of the complete metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, adult
- watched a butterfly and moth video and wrote facts
- began making our electronic insect book in Book Creator
- practiced Building a Bug
- did a Butterfly Scavenger Hunt with our 5th grade buddies
In ELA
- continued to work out sounds of /ou/ and /ow
- took unit 14 fundations test
- read a folktaleThe Lad Who Went to The North Wind
- practiced the 5 Ws, summarizing and sequencing the events
