Thursday, February 15

Thursday, February 15
Popcorn Word: was

Word Family Focus: -an

Handwriting: lowercase l & words/sentences with l
 Writer's Workshop: Fix-It Up!
The children will fix up a sentence that does not have a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence and punctuation at the end.

DAILY 5

SMART Room Highlight: Balance Beam

Math: Measurement: Capacity/Volume

New Concept: Today we are going to keep looking at our study on capacity. Fill a bowl with rice. Then ask, I wonder if this pop bottle has more or less capacity. Invite a few responses. Then transfer the rice to the bottle using the funnel. 
When your students notice that the rice does not fill the bottle ask them what they think happened. Then ask, What do you think will happen if I pour it back in the bowl.
Guide students to use the language of higher or lower capacity.
Whole Group Explore: Let me hand you a sheet and you will document our rice experiment. You will start by drawing the first bowl we used. Now draw how high the rice was in the bowl. Now I will pour it into another container. Which one should we try next? Now draw how the rice looks in this next container. Continue until the response page has been completed. Which container had the most capacity? Which had the least capacity.
Student Application: Students will complete the independent practice on their own.

 PhyEd Today
 Time for Kids: Lincoln's Life

~Your child can dress like an Olympian tomorrow. 
~Keep track of your child's reading minutes on the purple calendar that came home yesterday. This does include you reading to them.
**WARNING** Cuteness overload from the 100th day...