Hi room 5 families! We have launched our new project, Chocolate! We will be exploring the rainforest ecosystem, creating our own chocolate recipes and discussing the social justice issues that surround chocolate. Below we launched our project by doing a chalk-talk around the question, "What is chocolate?". We then talked about what we think we know about chocolate and then did a simple taste test to see what types of chocolate friends in the classroom enjoy. Project handouts will be sent given out at parent-teacher conferences. Parents can ask their student, "Why are you learning about the rainforest in the chocolate project?" For our read aloud book, we started Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. So far we have met Charlie and his family, Mr. Wonka, the Oompa Loompas, and Agustus Gloop. While many of the characters are the same in the book, the story is quite different! The students are excited to learn how the story unfolds. In math we have been exploring skip counting and grouping numbers when adding. Here are examples of some of the problems we have been working on. Parents can ask their student, "What is the problem asking you to figure out?" "How do you know that?" "How did you count that?" "Do you think this is an addition problem or subtraction problem? Why?" Here we are playing a math game galled Cover Up! We are practicing number recognition. We are using clues from the 100s chart to figure out what number is covered up. Here we are in music with Ms. Amanda. In first grade music is in the piano room. We are learning about moTown music. In March we will start piano lessons. Parents can ask, "Can you sing the Hello Song?" "What is moTown?" Here we are in science with Ms. Hutchins. We are learning about chemical and physical changes. Here we are making flubber and oobleck. Parents can ask, "What is an example of a chemical change?" What is an example of a physical change?" We also learned about recipes and the importance of measuring.
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