Our letter of the week is letter X. During the week we will talk about the sound of this letter as well as some words that start/end with the letter X. Since there are not a lot of things with the X sound, we are doing our unit on maps (x marks the spot). We will look at maps of the US and of the world. Each student will get to spend time working with a BIG floor map of theUS during centers this week as they try to locate our state and other states they are familiar with. We will be talking about travel too. The students will be asked to recall a time they traveled somewhere (near or far). You may want to discuss some family trips with them or show them some pictures of previous trips so that they can be successful with this writing assignment. Our classroom housekeeping center has been turned into a Travel Agency as well. Students will have the chance to pretend to be travel agents and dream about places they would like to visit. At the end of the week we will talk about pirates and treasure maps...just because they are fun!
In math I will be assessing the students on their 2nd quarter skills and reviewing many of the skills we have learned since the last report card. We will focus on drawing maps too. Students will work in small groups to make a map of the classroom. We will also look at a map of May Watts and see if we can give our friends directions to different places in the building.
We have 1 or 2 magnet experiments left to complete this week as well. Students will get to see if magnets are strong enough to attract through various objects. Our science center will also be open and the children will get to explore magnets there. This is always a fun center and the kids love spending time learning about the properties of magnets.
