Hadden's Happenings

Classroom learning for the week of February 1^st-5^th

^{Reminders for the week:}

Tuesday, February 1^st – PTA Meeting

Wednesday, February 3^rd- Early Release Day

Thursday, February 4^th - Library Day

February 9^th – Field Trip to Stunt Ranch

Language Arts:

Spelling Words:

hall, hang, heavy, herself, hid, himself, hole, hundred, hung, hungry, kept, kick, kill, king, kiss

Reading Workshop:

• This week we will finish our unit on drama
•  Elements of drama: drama, plot, characters/cast, scripts, dialogue, plot, theme, narrator, setting
•  Introduce Reader’s Theater and assign plays
•  If time permits, design props
•  Perform the plays for the classroom and kindergarten buddy class

Writing Workshop:

• We completed our Pourguoi Tales and they are hanging in the hallway
• Synonyms and Antonyms
• We will begin our Country Research Paper
• Students will brainstorm and choose the country they want to research
• Begin researching the country of their choice

Math:

• Continue our unit on Fractions
•  Identify equivalent fractions
•  Equivalent fractions with area model
•  Equivalent fractions on a number line
• Equivalent fractions using a fraction strip

Science:

• ·      Begin our unit 7: Environments: Characteristics and Changes
• ·        Organisms depend on living and nonliving things in their environment for survival

• ·        Environments have physical characteristics that support groups of organisms in an ecosystem
• ·        Physical characteristics of an environment include weather conditions and sources of water and shelter
• ·        A food chain represents the flow of energy in an ecosystem