Reading: Last week we continued with our second unit "Me on a Map". Students engaged with visual representations, informational text such as articles and secondary sources, to learn about where we live and the environment around us.
Phonics: We will be finished up our work with blends, focusing on final consonant blends. We continued practicing blending, segmenting sounds, and writing.
Writing: We continued working on informational writing, doing a deep dive into the important parts of informational writing such as the introduction. Students practiced and explored informational text and how they can be used to to assist in writing.
Math: Using their background knowledge of 10s, 1s and teen numbers, students continued to work through framework task to help engage, explore, apply, and reflect on mathematical concepts, while exploring place value.
Social Studies: Continuing with landforms from the previous week, students worked on where different landforms are located, the different continents and oceans, and map keys.
Vocabulary Words for the Week:
Element: a part of something
Location: a particular place
Features: an important part
Direction - a way to go or a way to look
Map - a drawing of an area of the earth or sky
Symbol - an object or shape that gives meaning.
Globe - a map in the shape of a ball
