UPCOMING EVENTS:
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Teacher In-service:
No School-
OCT. 23-24
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Parent Teacher Conferences:
No School-
October 29-30
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Here's What's New in Beacons' World
Writers' Workshop: In order to celebrate more creative word choice, we got into the Halloween spirit and created “Word Graveyards.” Gone are boring tired old words like: fun, good, big, nice, slow, fast etc…. Now we’ll be using much more interesting synonyms.
Reading: Shilo students are working on chapters 7-8 in class. Horrible Harry and the Dungeon students are working on chapert 5. Students in skill groups are working on building sight word vocabulary, fluency and short vowel mastery.
Math: We’ve completed Unit 1 and have broken into two math groups. One group, with guidance from us, is accelerating at their own pace through Unit 2; and the other group will work on Unit 2 as a group. Unit 2 will focus on addition properties, adding three digit numbers and estimating sums.
We also spent some time this week building number and money sense as each student was given $1,000 to shop with! (Hope that doesn’t bolster their birthday and holiday lists too much!)
Science: This week we explored how "convection currents" in the earth's mantle affect the movement of the lithographic plates. We got to look at the heat waves emitted from a candle and we did an exciting experiment that tested the affect hot and cold have on food dye in water. From our observations, we were able to tell that heat creates currents in the water similar to the way currents move through earth's mantle.
Social Studies: JAMBO! Jambo means "hello" in Swahili.We have been learning Swahili in class and have created our own Swahili dictionary! We have also traveled to the wild Savanna which is a "dryland" ecosystem dominated by tropical grassland with scattered trees or bushes. We are studying the herbivores which live in the Savannah (also spelled Savanna). The herbivores we are studying are as follows: deer, zebra, African elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, antelopes, gnus, impalas and gazelles. The lakes and rivers of the Savannah herbivores that we are studying are the hippopotamuses and the rhinoceroses. In addition, students are thrilled at the latest item in their Social Studies suitcase which will help them prepare for our next African stop, the Sahara Desert!
Looking forward to another exciting week at Seabury,
Tamara and Betsy
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