Chavura

For the week of: 8/30/10

     We are continuing to collect money for agendas ($5) and magazine subscriptions ($10).  If you have not sent these with your student, please do so.  We have finished our focus on body systems, and we will be moving into nutrition.

Central Idea

     Choices affect our health and well-being.

Inquiry Into

     Positive and negative choices (nutrition)

Teacher Questions:

     What happens within our bodies when we exercise?  How do systems work together to keep our bodies healthy?  Who is responsible for keeping us healthy?

     Way that our choices affect us in the present as well as the future.  Things such as nutrition, exercise, and smoking will be discussed.

     We will be attending the Slim GoodBody show in Charlotte on October 18th.  We will also be attending classes on nutrition and grocery stores at the Catawba Valley Science Center.  More information to come.

     The students did very well on their first week's words.  This weeks words are amaze, brave, engage, stake, and mistake (3rd); appoint, choice, devoid, rejoice, and toil (4th).  Students are expected to be able to spell the words correctly and use them in sentences.    

     We are focusing on story problems with both grades.  We will also be reviewing multiplication, money, and decimal usage.

     The students now have chapter books to be reading.  We will begin a reading log this week so that students can share their books with their classmates.  I will also continue giving articles relating to health and nutrition that the students read and discuss.

     We are working on sentence and paragraph formation, as well as brainstorming and using writing prompts.  We will also continue working on nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.