~ FROZEN FRIDAY ~

Are you ready for another 
Frozen Frenzy?  


Due to Thanksgiving Break, there will be no blog posted next week. 

 I want to take a moment now to wish all my families a HAPPY THANKSGIVING and hope everyone has a wonderful break.


Mark it on the Calendar!

Wednesday, November 27th: Thanksgiving Break 
No School
Thursday, November 28th: Thanksgiving Break
No School
Friday, November 29th: Thanksgiving Break
No School 
Thursday, December 5th:  eLearning Day
December 9th - 13th:  Santa's Secret Workshop
Friday, December 13th:  Winterfest
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Thursday, December 19th:  2nd Quarter Ends
Friday, December 20th - Friday, January 3rd:
Winter Recess - No School
Monday, January 6th:  School Resumes

AROUND DUNELAND:

Winter Card Contest 2019

The Duneland School Corporation is excited to announce our 3rd annual Winter Card Contest!  All Duneland students in grades K-8 are eligible to participate. Please see the flyer below for contest guidelines. Submissions are due to the student's school art teacher on or before November 26, 2019. Only one entry per student, please. Student winners will be recognized at the mid January school board meeting.

1st Grade:  MAGICAL ANAGRAMS:

This week we continued our study on anagrams.  The students listened to the story The Great Show and Tell Disaster by Mike Reiss.  This story is FULL of anagrams!  As we read the story, we listed a majority of the anagrams we found on the board, until we ran out of room.  



When we were reading the story a student was wondering about the meaning of the word colossal.  We continued reading to see if we found any clues to help us discover the definition.  Afterwards, the students were introduced to a vocabulary map which is a tool to help us look and develop an understanding of new words.
  Together, we defined the word colossal with our vocabulary map.  I challenged them to try and use this word this week to someone.  (However, you too can join in the fun and use the word colossal and see if they tell you what it means.)  The students used their remaining time to continue working on their anagram packet.
We will wrap up our fun with anagrams next week.
  

2nd Grade:  FREYTAG'S PYRAMID:

This week we completed our grammar lesson with adjectives and adverbs.

  








Then, we moved onto learning about the structure of a story.  The students were introduced to Freytag's Pyramid.

 

Together, we defined each section of the pyramid.

We will continue exploring Freytag's Pyramid next week.

3rd Grade:  BEATRIX POTTER:

This week the students shared with the class their analyzers of the story they selected from our collection of Beatrix Potter.  Then, we listened to the story The Tale of Peter Rabbit together as a class.  As I read aloud the story, the students completed a reading analyzer on the short story for one last practice with completing this sheet. 
 To end our lesson with Beatrix Potter, we compared and contrasted our stories with a 3-way Venn Diagram.  The students are familiar with this sheet when it works with two circles, but this was a twist for them seeing it with 3 circles.  They did a great job finding items all three stories shared.

Next week we will move onto a new lesson.

4th Grade:
My Fourth Grade class did not meet this week due scheduled events.

1st Grade:  AREA:

This week the students were introduced to the word Area - which is our new concept for our next chapter.  They had to look at two different placemats and decide which shape had the largest area.  Next, they were introduced to square units as our measuring tool.  This allowed them to check the actual area of the two placemats and make a conclusion of which one was larger.

  Then, the students began some worksheets to practice working with area independently.  We ran into new vocabulary terms: larger, smaller and the same as.  Some students were writing about the same as which is what we stated for weight.  This led us into a conversation of our answers being exact (the same as) or close to the same (about the same as).  To end the day, the students explored predicting and measuring the area of items around the room.

2nd Grade:  THINK DEEPLY:

It was time to help our friends Dru and Teller with a question. Some students sent them their tessellations and they needed our help in explaining to them about the basic unit and how it was transformed.  They were asked to identify the shapes in the basic unit, explain how they were connected and how the shapes moved in the tessellation.  The students worked with a partner to fill-out their think frame. 

 Then, as a class we shared all of our different ideas that we should include in our answer.  The students used the remainder of their class time to respond to Dru and Teller.

  

3rd Grade:  CHAPTER CHECK-UP:

This week the students completed their first chapter check-up.  This tool allows us to see how the students are progressing with the material up to this point and look and see if there are any areas we need to revisit.

  On Thursday, we reviewed a few items on the chapter check-up.  Then, we used the remainder of our time to play KaHoot to wrap up this chapter. 

4th Grade:  CHAPTER CHECK-UP:

*Due to scheduled events, we only met one day this week.

This week the students completed their chapter check-up.  We utilize the check-up as a guide to see where the students are at this point with all the material covered.  We will review any of these areas after break.  To end class, we had a few minutes left to play a game of SET. 

Have  Great Weekend & A Happy Thanksgiving,

Ms. Losinski