Wow! What a busy week we have had in Rimon. In addition to the siddur celebration on Tuesday, Rimon students celebrated Lag B’omer yesterday and prepared for and attended the science fair today. The children did a wonderful job answering questions and explaining their learning about the engineering task of building bridges.
In math, Rimon students have been working on adding numbers from one to one hundred with and without re-grouping. Today we began to learn about subtracting these larger numbers but without re-grouping. The children will practice this more and then move on to subtracting with re-grouping next week or the week after.
Rimon writers have been busy writing and revising poetry. Each student has been working on three different poems: a spring acrostic poem, an “I Wonder” poem and a shape poem. We hope to have these finished complete with illustrations in the next two weeks so they can be made into a class book published by Student Treasures.
Science has shifted to a unit on birds and butterflies. We have received a group of caterpillars and are observing to see the different stages they go through on their way to becoming butterflies. Some of our caterpillars have begun to hang upside down each in preparation for making his/her own chrysalis.
In Fundations, we have been learning about two syllable words. We are moving on to adding suffixes to these two syllable words and the rules about adding the letters “es” verses simply “s” on the end of some words.
Rimon readers have been listening to a variety of poems and we have been learning about using our “mind’s eye” to visualize what we read. Next week, we will begin a study comparing fiction and non-fiction.
Shabbat Shalom, Joanne