We are working hard leading up to our final week before Thanksgiving Break!

 

 

Here's a look at what our ELL groups have been up to:

 

Kindergarten: We are continuing to examine our five senses and have spent this week working on our sense of hearing and explaining to each other different sounds that we can hear with our ears. We also have sorted sounds that are loud and others that are quiet. We will continue the rest of the week working on the sense of touch and describing how objects feel.

 

First grade: We are beginning to align our unit with the Science curriculum studying rocks. This week's focus is looking at the word texture! The students began the unit completing an individual quick write describing all facts that they know about rocks. We then used a texture box to examine examples of words to describe how rocks feel; smooth, hard, soft, rough, sticky, etc. Based off of this list, the first graders identified words that did not represent the word texture such as shiny, sparkly, colored, etc. They are bringing home a completed Frayer Model vocabulary page to display their new knowledge of this word!

 

Second Grade: We have been analyzing the word history and identifying words that belong and do not belong in that topic. We also looked at timelines and identified the essential elements of what belongs on a timeline and ended by creating timelines of our own lives!

 

Third Grade: Mrs. Howard is continuing to discuss government with the third graders and they have been focusing on the three branches of government.

 

Fourth Grade: Mrs. Krishnan has been working with the fourth graders on activities to further examine the effects of water and erosion on rocks.

 

Fifth Grade: We are working on comparing different colonies and identifying various traits of the 13 colonies. We will continue to compare and contrast Puritans and Pilgrims.