This week we continued our exploration of penguins. After learning about the difference between facts and opinions, we wrote interesting facts about penguins and turned it into a new class book. In science, we did an experiment with blubber and ice. We found out the importance of blubber first hand by testing our hands in cold water, one hand in a layer of blubber and in just water. We also experimented with ice and textures to see how well our slippery ice penguins slide down a slope. In math, we worked on graphing and analyzing a penguin’s favorite snack, fish. Well we had colored goldfish. We end our unit by making penguins out of oreo cookies and watching the movie Disney Nature Penguins.
Monday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Reviewed the Secret Stories
Reviewed our sight words
Introduced to new sight words, they & for
Reviewed Facts and Opinions
Listened to the book Penguins & watched a penguin video
Identify facts about penguins
Started writing facts about penguins
Completed a penguin sentence worksheet
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Religion:
All school living rosary
Tuesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Read our new emergent reader, A Penguin is a Bird!
Listened to the book Penguins & watched a penguin video
Identify facts about penguins
Continued writing facts about penguins
Added illustrations to our penguin fact books
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Played Top-It with number cards
Religion:
Promise workbook page 7 & 8
Wednesday:
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Identified penguin facts
Created the cover of our Penguin Facts book
STEM: Building a ramp to make your “ice cube penguin” slide faster, slower, and longer?
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Explored the hundreds chart
Put together hundreds chart puzzles
Created a graph using colored Goldfish
Religion:
Discussed Baptism and watched a Brother Francis video: Born into a Kingdom
Thursday:
Unscheduled 2 hour late start
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Reviewed penguin facts
Science Experiment:
Why we should not wear stretchy gloves to play in the snow?
Does blubber really keep you warmer?
Started an art project by painting the background
Watched part of a the Disney Nature video, Penguins
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk
Religion:
Watched a video of St John the Baptist and colored his picture. His special feast day is June 24th.
Friday:
Unscheduled 2 hour late start
Reading:
Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song
Phonological Awareness Warmups
Created a penguin to add to our painting from yesterday
Penguin Cookies
Watched part of a the Disney Nature video, Penguins
Math:
Calendar Binder
Number Talk