This Week in Room 8 (3/6 to 3/9)

ELA:
This week we will be working on the following skills:

• using adjectives to compare
• dropping the "e" before adding "ing" in present verbs (smile = smiling)
• review identifying adjectives, verbs, and nouns

Word Wall Words:

• full
• done
• light
• pick
• hurt

As we read, we are working on becoming character experts to deepen our understanding of a story. We will be doing this by exploring the following:

• how a character changes emotions throughout a story
• comparing and contrasting the experiences/emotions of different characters in different stories

MATH:

This week we will work on the following skills:

• understanding fractions as equal shares
• 3-D shape attributes

Key Vocabulary for Math:

Critical Terms:

Rectangular prism, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, Hour, Minute, Trapezoid, Half circle, Quarter circle, Halves, Fourths, Quarters, Half of, Fourth of, Quarter of, Equal shares

Supplemental Terms:

Triangle, Circle, Square, Rectangle, Hexagon, Cube, Sphere, Cone, Cylinder, Flat, Solid

SCIENCE:

This week we will be wrapping up our Light and Sound Unit!

Leader in Me:

This week we will be preparing for the 1st Grade assembly next week on kindness. We will continue to look at our W.I.G.s (Wildly Important Goals) that we created last week. We will look at the steps we need to take to reach our goals, encourage one another to make choices that help us reach our goals, and celebrate our accomplishments along the way!