Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Names project, measurement, and reseach

This morning was our first day of guided reading and our first day of home reading book exchange! Ask me if I had guided reading today and who my guided reading teacher will be (All the grade 1's and most grade 2's had guided reading today). We are bringing home our second home reading book today. Please remember that these books should come back to school each day so that we can have a new book to practice each evening.

In math we did a measurement challenge with leaves. We started the challenge yesterday by collecting leaves and putting them in order from smallest to largest with our table groups. Today we using ordering, comparing, and measuring to figure out the widest, narrowest, longest, and shortest leaves that we had collected.

This afternoon we continued working on our life cycle diagrams for our arthropod research. Before we started this work we learned a fancy new word: Metamorphosis. We learned that this word describes the process of an insect or other animal going through its life cycle. We learned that some of our arthropods go through complete metamorphosis and some go through incomplete metamorphosis. Here is a video we watched about the process: