Week of February 4-7

Week of February 4-7, 2013

Theme: Everybody Builds & Robots

Letter of the Week: R

Well with an unexpected snow day on Friday that means that all of the conferences that were scheduled for Friday, Feb. 1 will have to be rescheduled. I will contact that parents that this effects and I will reschedules days and times for conferences.

Last week we had fun building a variety of objects. We sorted shapes and then used them to complete houses. We used our imagination to make a book page about what we could build if we could build anything we want. We also did a shape matching game with buttons on a house shape. We had a measuring box with a variety of tools to measure with such as a measuring tape, ruler and blocks. We used these tools to measure a variety of objects such as crayons, pencils, scissors and a chair. 

This week we will continue our building theme and move to building robots. On Monday both classes will be getting together with their Third Grade buddies to design and build robots. We will also be working on graphing, sorting robots by size and matching shapes. We will also be introduced to three dimensional shapes: sphere, cube, cylinder and cone.  We will be constructing/building 3 dimensional objects using gumdrops and toothpicks. 

Just a reminder that there will be no school on Monday, February 18th for President's Day.