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We are enjoying the warmer days but still
working hard as we move towards the end of our year together. It will be a busy time coming up as we have
lots planned. We wanted to update you on some of the learning activities going
on in our class.
Reading
Bingo
While we are no longer tracking our reading with the Reading Logs, we are
still encouraging the kids to spend time every day reading. It’s a perfect wind down activity before
bed. Our Reading Bingo challenge has the
students reading and doing follow up activities in class.
Chocolate Theme
What a delicious way to end the year! After reading the class story the B.F.G. by
Roald Dahl we decided to continue to study books by this author by reading
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We will also be reading Chocolate
Fever. We will write our own stories
about getting a crazy fever from too much of a good thing like the boy in the
story developed. We will also use this
theme as a spring board for some other sweet writing!
We are excited to have received a last minute invitation to watch a production of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Lincoln students! That is definitely perfect timing!
Social Studies
Our current theme is Ancient Egypt. The students are very keen to learn about mummies, pharaohs, pyramids and their way of life over 3000 years ago! We are integrating Social Studies and Language Arts by doing a class novel study from the Magic Tree House series entitled Mummies In The Morning. These adventure books by Mary Pope Osborne are entertaining and informative to read. We will be writing postcards
from Egypt and planning our own Magic Tree
House adventure story. The kids are building Language Arts skills as they
broaden their base of knowledge. There is a lot of new
information to learn and we have some great activities lined up. We are ready
to be mummified!
Bookcreator
The class is creating presentations on Ancient Egypt
using Book Creator on the Ipads. The kids worked are working in pairs and
researching topics using books from the library and then adding pictures from
the internet. They will share these projects by presenting them on the
Smartboard.
Please contact us with any concerns or questions.
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