May 25th- May 29th

 

Phonics: -sion, -tion & -ture

-syllables are words or word parts with one vowel sound.  Learning about syllables helps us read and spell.

-Final stable syllables always come at the end of a word, -LE as in apple and puzzle.  Two more final stable syllables are -SION and -TION

-SION can follow a vowel (vision or diversion) or a consonant (passion and extension)

-TION can sometimes make the /ch/ sound like in the word question

- Another final stable syllable we learned about is -ture, we hear the CH sound but it is spelled with -ture (e.g. picture, structure)

High Frequency Words

This will be the last weekly word list as we have now practiced all 300 high frequency words. After this we will be looking at common homophones etc.  Stay tuned!  This is the last 10 words to practice:

young, talk, soon, list, song, being, leave, family, it's, body

Measuring Length:

-We have learned how to measure length with standard units by tiling or iterating with a centimetre and centicube

-We practice making sure we line up the item we are measuring with the edge of the ruler or cube and stop at the end of the item

How Big Is A Foot

- We learned the importance of using the same size of measurement for accuracy

- We went outside and traced our bodies with chalk and then used our feet to tile and measure our length and the length of our partners

- Depending on whose foot was being used to measure we would get a different number of feet!

Fairy Tale Writing

-We were inspired by the book You Choose Fairy Tales to start writing our own fairy tale.

-Where will it take place? What is the problem in the story?  How will it be solved?

Animal Research-

-We continue to spend time learning how to navigate Google Slides as we prepare a presentation for everything we have learned from our animal research

Robotics- Coding

-We worked with the Dash Robotics and the Coding App Blockly to program the robot to do different tasks

-We had so much fun!