Nothing quite beats tent city on rainy days!
Theme: Where in the World?!
We headed to Europe this week! Visiting the second smallest continent we discovered that the Ural Mountains separate Europe from Asia. And as we detailed our own maps we saw that there are several seas with interesting names that surround a good part of the westward jutting peninsulas. Names such as Caspian Sea, Baltic Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea..
On Tuesday, Eliza (Malin’s mom) visited us to share many interesting facts, cool relics, and delicious treats from Scandinavia. Thank you SO much for indulging Alphas in some of what the nordic countries have to offer.
We explored the city of mosaics – Ravenna, Italy! Then we created our own “mosaic” pieces…
“Tile” shopping..
We learned to play a very fun Italian game “Lupo Mangia Frutta” (the fruit eating wolf)
Alphas enjoyed a French delicacy – Crepes! We filled them with…
Strawberries…
Bananas…
Nutella and whipped cream!
Delicious!!!
We also… Worked on adding a coat of plaster to give our Alebrijes a hard finish before painting.
And updated our globes to include South America and Eurasia…
Math
Ms. Emma’s Math Wizards…
Continued to tackle place value in the hundreds using wooden blocks to visualize these increasingly large numbers.
Practicing working with expanded form in the hundreds place..
We played “roll and compare”…
We also played a few skip counting in the hundreds games..
We learned a couple new card games to apply our math facts!
Odd/even memory card game..
Playing spoons! (but with rulers)
Ms. Kim’s Mathletes…
We had fun creating pictures with ten bars and unit cubes then adding up how many cubes we used in all! We worked in our Adding/Subtracting books, we worked to solve the Magic Square challenge, and played Guess my Number….
ELA
Ms.Kim’s group…
Alphas got a big kick out of the mystery books we read this week! They thought the big similarities between fantasy stories and mysteries was that they both seem to start out pretty realistically – but fantasy stories go side-ways into realms that couldn’t happen in our world right now. Even when the mysteries we read had talking animals for characters, the situations they got into all required some realistic problem solving, from someone or several someones dedicated to solving the mystery.
Alphas rocking “Spell it, Keep it!”
This week, we had TWO students who could spell “eight.” Way to practice Alphas!
Making sentences with High-frequency words…
Alphas in offices with highlighters working on “or” controlled words…
Working from a strange photo prompt, Alphas create a setting for the mystery story they will solve…
Ms. Emma’s group…
Shared their memory of their favorite possessions…
Lucky us…we got to see Ezra and Max’s favorite possessions!
We continued working hard on our memory journals…look at these paragraph writing alphas!!!
Spelling check ins with our high frequency words…
Playing spell, it keep it..
They ALWAYS ask Ms. Emma to go to the library and she would never deny such a request…
We also studied many different suffixes and had fun creating word lists for them.
Lastly, they have been having so much fun applying their spelling patterns when playing Worldly! Many students asked for the link to play at home, so here it is!
In Other News…
Indoor recess on rainy days calls for…
Tent city!!!
Wild Rumpus!!!
