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English Literacy:  Fiction readers will learn that characters in stories are like people in real life—their feel- ings change. It’s always interesting to not only notice when a character’s feelings change, but to investigate and figure out what causes that feeling to change.  

Phonics: Word builders will learn about the R- controlled vowels and different ways to spell them. R Controlled Vowels with R

English Literacy:  Fiction Readers will learn to think about the way a character is acting, paying attention to what the character says and does, how the character acts, reaching for the right word to describe the character.  Ways people act chart. Study characters closely chart 

Phonics: Work on the following worksheet and put into practice what you have learned about the R - Controlled vowels. Worksheet for the R- Controlled

Los estudiantes, esta vez llamados escritores científicos, experimentan y aprenden sobre el mundo que los rodea, estudiando y preguntando, ¿Cómo los científicos escriben informes de laboratorios?. 

Escritores científicos, estudian sobre fuerza y movimiento (Ley de Newton)  y aprenden a escribir hipótesis, procedimientos, resultados y conclusiones,  sobre el experimento que realizamos juntos en clase. 

Escritores en casa:

• Aprenden que los científicos escriben de una manera especial, escriben informes de laboratorios para mostrarle al mundo sobre lo que experimentan y descubren.

• Necesitan los siguientes materiales: rampa de cartón, carro de juguete, centímetro o regla para medir, formato nuevo de escritura, o bien hojas blancas.

• Escriben el problema (Se preguntan sobre cómo funciona el mundo)

• Escriben una hipótesis (Una idea, una predicción donde se explica lo que el científico piensa o cree, dando una razón del por qué predice eso?)

• Escriben los procedimientos (el paso a paso de cómo se realiza el experimento, lista de materiales)

• Escriben en una página el experimento 1 (sobre la alfombra) escriben en la siguiente página experimento 2 (sobre el piso)

• Realizan varias pruebas por experimentos

• Analizan y escriben los resultados.

• Escriben conclusiones.

• Cartel de la semana

• Ejemplo de informe de laboratorio por estudiante de segundo grado.

• Formato de hoja de escritura 

Students will practice adding and subtracting with coins, we will solve problems. We will also count up to 1000 paper clips, we will make groups of 10, 100, and finally coun up to 1000..

Unit 5, Mod 2, session 6 

Next week, we will swtich from social studies to science and start a new unit about Bodies of water. Students will be looking at and analyzing all of the different landforms that we have in nicaragua. They will look at lakes, rivers, mountains, islands, beaches, canyons on a map and learn how to use the key of the map. 

Draw a map with the most famous landforms in Nicaragua. For example, Masaya volcano, Cocibolca lake, etc. Use labels in your map.

Friends and learners will Speak up for myself and support others kindly and respectfully.

Speak up because my ideas and feelings are important, and so are my classmates’.

Make sure my classmates feel safe and welcomed when they communicate.

Can you think of a time when you or someone else should have spoken up but didn’t? What could you or that person do better next time?