Math
This week in math the Betas were introduced to multiplication! We learned that it’s repeated addition and can be represented by arrays. By the end of the week, the Betas were ready to hunt for arrays posted around the room and turn them into multiplication number sentences. To solve the trickier problems, we brought out our manipulatives and built our own arrays to help us skip count.
ELA
In phonics this week we met the diphthong /oo/. We learned that it can have two sounds, as in “cook” and “toon.” Our sight words were: good, room and school. Our vocabulary words were hoof and proof.
We are deep into our book club novels! These will likely be our last books of the year. We’re reading Eerie Elementary, Ready Freddy: Yikes Bikes! and The Littles.
We began, and completed, something new in writing this week! Poems for two voices! What’s that? Well, Two-Voice Poems are written from two different points of view on the same topic. Our topic of course, is minibeasts! This kind of non-rhyming poem is designed to be read by two people, so we partnered up and began brainstorming ideas on a Venn diagram. Once we had several similarities and differences about our minibeasts, we began to form them into a poem! Using a graphic organizer with three columns, we created the two separate voices on the left and right, and in the middle we wrote the similarities that are read together. They are adorable y’all! Can’t wait for you to read them! We will post videos of the partners reading their masterpieces on Instagram – be sure to check it out!
Theme
Paper mache week! What a fun and crazy mess! Final steps are antennae, paint, and last but not least, wings if needed. Phew! We better get cracking!
We also learned all about a very important insect this week- the honey bee! Bees are one of the world’s most important pollinators for food crops — each day we rely on bees and other pollinators. In fact, out of every three bites we consume relies on pollination! We also learned a bunch of cool facts! Did you know that honey is bee barf? (Actually, not really. The place where the bees store the nectar is called the “crop” and most think of it as a second stomach, however it is never used to digest food in honey bees. Instead, the sole purpose of it is to hold nectar. But for a kid cool factor, they are technically barfing it back up! ;) We CAN’T WAIT for our trip to Two Hives Farm in just over a week!
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