We began chapter two, "Communities of Different Sizes," in Social Studies. The study skills introduced were previewing and questioning. This week we focused on urban communities and learned about the urban park planner, Frederick Law Olmstead. We also learned how to use a map grid.
In math we reviewed how to find the perimeter of a polygon and explored ways to make and measure different perimeters. The children enjoyed using geoboards to find the measurement of the sides of shapes with certain perimeters. We also are developing the concept of area using square units. Today we used one foot squares to estimate the area of different surfaces around the room.
The bulletin board outside of our room has been changed into an enormous spider web that we created as a class. In our novel, Charlotte's Web, we learned that Charlotte's plan to save Wilbur involved spinning different words in to her web to highlight his positive qualities. Each student chose a word to describe him/herself. Then he/she looked up the word in a thesaurus to find a similar word to make a part of our spider web on the bulletin board. Each word has been decorated to look like part of the web and even has a spider attached to it.
I hope that you are enjoying the holiday season! Happy Chanukah!
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