Week 37

Math:
Mali- In this unit the use of two strategies in particular were encouraged: "using doubles" (for example, 7 + 8 = 7 + 7 + 1) and "making ten" (for example 9 + 7 = 10 + 6).
Max- did Dreambox lessons and some workbook lessons. My Dreambox was on jumping along the number line for multiplication. Also some more graph problems.

L. arts:
Max- I had a lesson about er/ir/ur. Did a writing activity with OO words. Finished reading the Ricky Ricotta book I was reading which was the last one in the series.
Mali- In Nessy one of my activities was to read a sentence that was a clue and figure out which word it went with. I also read the Tin Raft story in my AAR lesson and then did a matching activity with pictures/sentences from the book.

History:
we learned about Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China. He started the Great Wall of China’s construction and also had a huge tomb built for himself underground. He had a lot of terra-cotta soldiers and horses built to guard his tomb. Archaeologists only discovered this tomb not very long ago. We watched a video on it and it is really big and elaborate. Pretty cool.

Science:
we learned about the electromagnetic spectrum. Waves are all around us but the only part of the spectrum we see is called the Visible Light spectrum.

Music:
we had a music class. We practiced songs on our bells. We only have one more week of class.

Tech (Maker):
We built with Legos. We assembled our 9 square set and played in the backyard.