Today was the launch of our next integrated unit of study. Pirates are the theme but we will be covering story elements, community, democracy, needs versus wants, common objects in the sky, properties of light and sound, solids, liquids, gases, financial literacy, estimating quantities, measurement and the water cycle. This is an ambitious unit of study and I will certainly be leaving room in our schedule to follow topics that spark our interests. For this week though we are simply going to focus on pirates! We will be brainstorming things we know about pirates and things we want to know more about. From there we will source out some answers.
In Math today we started talking about financial literacy. The goal is to recognize coins by their name and value. We will be moving on to adding coins to values up to $1.00. You can help at home by sorting coins, adding coins together and discussing what coins you might need in order to purchase small items (for example: what coins could I use to buy an apple worth $0.55?). To compliment our pirate study I have started to read Pippi Longstocking to the class. To start off we are exploring character traits and setting but we will also be discussing story problems, how the problem is resolved and the story sequence. We are sure to have lots of fun in the coming weeks! Comments are closed.
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