Weekend Before Thanksgiving

Upcoming Events:

• Friday

  8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Read-a-thon

• • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Read-a-thon

  Monday

  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Read-a-thon

  Tuesday

  • DSC Winter Card Contest Entries Due
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Read-a-thon

  Wednesday

  • NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Read-a-thon

  Thursday

  • NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Read-a-thon

 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.

1^st Grade:

I only had one day with the kiddos this week due to a special’s change. We continued working on our Hamburger Persuasive Paragraphs. We all sat in our reading area with their papers and clip boards. We continued brainstorming ideas for their 3 supporting details.

 We also worked on coming up with the conclusion. Next week we will revise and edit their Hamburger Paragraphs.  It was so cute that the children are still trying to talk to me in Pig Latin.

2^nd Grade:

I started off the class by asking them, “What is a story, what does a story need, and what parts make up a story?”  I had many answers which were all great and on the right track. We discussed characters, settings, plot conflict and resolution. I then introduced them to Freytag’s Pyramid which helps people understand a story structure. The person who used this diagram to explain the structure most stories follow was a German man named Gustav Freytag.  Next week we will discuss this pyramid more and listen to a story.

3^rd Grade:

We reread Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle this week since it had been awhile. The children really love the story. Then, I introduced the children to a reading analyzer. The reading analyzer is a diagram that allows the children to examine their reading and take it a step further to look for the deeper meaning in the story. While using the reading analyzer we found words that were new to us, or words that were important. 

Then we inferred about character traits. I reminded the children that we did that with The Girl Who Loved Wild horses. With those inferred character traits we supported our ideas with text evidence from the story.  We wrote down interactions that the characters had which is our main focus this year. If you remember an interaction can be accidental or purposeful, it can be positive or negative, it can also have a fleeting influence or can leave a deep and lasting impression. Then we wrote about what passages are important, and what are the main ideas. With a student at the doc cam, we took this step by step. I then let them choose their own Beatrix Potter book to read. Their end in mind was that they would be filling out a reading analyzer on the story they were reading. We will finish up next week.

4^th Grade:

We finished up with our set of sentences identifying the parts of speech and subject/predicate. We also looked at compound subjects which are when more than one noun is doing the verb. 

We then discussed compound verbs which are more than one verb. We took a look at action verbs vs. linking verbs. Then we moved on to direct objects, which are the noun or noun phrase that is receiving the action of the verb.

 On Tuesday I introduced the children to a vocabulary map. We took the time to define the word biography. Next week we will start reading the book Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges.

1^st Grade:

This week in math we finished up our About the Same Weight worksheet. Since everyone brought back their Penny Scavenger Hunt we moved on to our next lesson. Students worked together to make comparisons with their bags and the bag of 50 pennies. They are also making comparisons with their bags, and with their partners.

 A worksheet called Compare Three Weights went along with this activity. Once they compared the baggies they had to list them from heaviest to lightest. The students are beginning to understand the concept of transitivity, such as, when one object is heavier than a second object and when the second object is heavier than a third object, the first object is also heavier than the third object.

2^nd Grade:

We continued with our lesson on tessellations. I introduced the children to three simple moves: a flip, a slide, and/or a turn. A flip is a reflection, a slide is a translation and a turn is a rotation.  The children then worked on the worksheets Transformers A,B and C which included those key moves. We then went over each one making sure we were all on the right track.  

We then moved on to Transformation Trip. The children had to move a triangle in order from 1-11. They then needed to color each triangle based on the move it preformed.  For example, to move from triangle 3-4, the triangle is turned, so 4 should be blue.  We will continue working on this when we meet again.

3^rd Grade:

This week the children finished up their Mini Hundreds chart. They are slowly working on their Zaccrro packet. 

We then started the Multiplies of Hundreds Chart worksheet. We slowly worked through a couple questions. I told the children to start by examining all of the charts and looking for the characteristics of them. Some were having some difficulty with some of the questions. We are going to work through this as a class to make sure we are all grasping what is being asked.

4^th Grade:

This week I presented the kids with two 3-D shapes per piece of paper. The children then needed to rotate around to seven different stations and write down the name of the shape. Most of them wrote down the correct answers.This was a great way to start this new lesson and also see what they knew.

One group then played a Triple Play Tournament. Most of the children were very excited about this.  The other group played Geometry Bingo. I think they had a fantastic couple of days doing fun learning activities. 

There will not be a blog next week due to Thanksgiving break.