Welcome Back!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Spring Break :)

Here's a look at what's happening in our ELL groups:

Kindergarten: Our focus this week is on characters and setting. We will begin by analyzing different characters that we know of not just in books, but in tv shows and movies as well. After creating a list, we will be reading stories and drawing and identifying key information to describe characters. We also will identify different settings and understanding that settings are places described in stories. We will be drawing pictures and writing sentences to go along with our illustrations about characters and settings.

First Grade: We are continuing our human body explorations by identifying key vocabulary associated with the main organs in our body. Last week, we discussed the heart and now we are venturing into the lungs. We will be analyzing and reading various poems and short books that will help us describe key vocabulary words related to the lungs.

Second grade: We are describing various landforms that exist in our world! The students will be matching definitions to pictures and describing their knowledge of different landforms through actions.

Fifth Grade: We will continue our unit on Digestion and focus on the main organs and processes involved. We are reading different books and creating different diagrams that are related to digestion.

We're winding down the days until Spring Break!

 

All students did a wonderful job with ISATs this past week and we are now getting back into our normal routine.

 

Kindergarten students: We will be working on classfiying characteristics of objects such as heavy and light. We will also be incorporating some math skills into this by graphing our objects to see if there are more or less heavy objects than light objects.

 

First grade: We completed our autobiopoems and are now moving into analyzing the parts of the human body. We will begin this unit by doing various cooperative activities to analyze the parts inside and outside of the body and then move into the major functions of different organs.

 

 

Second grade: We are working on distinguishing facts and fiction. We will be doing different cooperative activities distinguishing the differences between fact and fiction beginning with a game where we choose 2 facts about ourselves and one fiction piece of information to try to fool our friends!

 

Fifth grade: We are moving into studying the parts and functions of the digestive system. We will be doing different cooperative activities and reading text related to the digestive system.

 

 

This week we have been working on many interesting activities that go along with topics discussed in each class!

Kindergarten is continuing their work on the letter O this week in class. We started off our groups brainstorming words that end in -op and created lists of words and sentences that have the ending. The rest of the week has been dedicated to brainstorming opposites. Each student wrote a sentence in their journal identifying an opposite and drawing a picture to go along with his or her writing using the frame ________ is the opposite of ___________.

First grade have been using their knowledge on biographies of other people to create an autobiographical poem about themselves! This activity will prepare them for answering the upcoming writing activity in their classes where they will be answering questions and interviewing a peer from class.

Second grade has been working hard to understand and describe the steps of the Scientific Method. Last week, we listened to a song about the Scientific Method and our groups created actions to go along with each step. These steps are: Make an observation, ask a question, form a hypothesis, do a test/experimentation, analyze data and record results, and draw a conclusion. We performed a sink/float experiment and focused on each step of the Scientific Method; using complete sentences to form predictions and ask questions in our journals.

Fifth grade has been working for the past few weeks on describing the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. We took a poll at the beginning using an interactive website called socrative.com, where the students responded to questions about the specific events to check their understanding. We are now working on a Reader's Theater to become engaged and take on roles of the various events to better our understanding!

Next week, our groups will not meet due to ISAT testing. We will resume our normal ELL schedule the following week!

Welcome back :)

We hope that you had a wonderful and relaxing winter break!

 

 

Tomorrow and Thursday we will be conducting CBMs for all grade levels, therefore our ELL groups will not be meeting for the remainder of the week.

 

Starting next Tuesday 1/15 until 2/15 we will be conducting ACCESS testing for all current ELL students and parent refusal students. We will be sending an informational letter home with your child later this week. During this testing window, we will not be meeting with our normal ELL groups due to the large number of students that require testing. Please feel free to contact us with any questions!

 

 

Miss Lundeen