Happy Gobble Gobble Day!

Our Second Annual Turkey Trot was a huge success.  Bright but cool weather made for the perfect jog!  Because of all the generous donations from D103 students and parents, our class won the pizza party for the class with the most dollar amount in donations!!!  Our very own student, Arius Glatt, won the prize for the most monies donated by a single person!  All donations will be put to good use in providing technology and resources for our Ho`okele Keiki.   Thank you all for your generous contributions!

Here is a summary of what happened in our classroom:

​In Langauge Arts...

• Continuing our Unit on informational and expository text from last week, students read a non-fictional article about Poison Dart Frogs.  Using this article, students learned about various text features such as heading, subheading, bold print, glossary, captions, photos, etc...  Students learned how authors uses these text features to organize information. 
• Using this same article, students determined the main idea, which was that poison dart frogs can be very deadly.  Students looked for supporting details.  Some of the details included the following: a small drop of their poison can kill ten men, native people living in the rainforest use their poison on spears and arrows to help with hunting, their bright color warns other animals to stay away, only one animal eats them-the fire-bellied snake-the only animal that developed a resistance to the poison.  Using the main idea and supporting details, the children begun working on a constructed response to answer the following question:  Explain how the Poison Dart Frog is one of the world's deadliest animals.  
• As we read more and more books on coral reefs and the ocean, students are starting to become experts on the topic.  They learned the location of coral reefs around the world;  they're found in shallow, warm, tropical waters; there are three zones within a coral reef (fore reef, reef crest, and the back reef).  Students also learned that coral are animals not plants.

In math...

• Students learned how to add two-digit number using an open number line.  Many students found the open number line easier to show their thinking on than a segmented one because you don't have to think about the exact position of each number.  Students learned that on an open number line, the position of your jumps need not to be so precise.  ​
• Students practiced more addition and subtraction strategies using dominos to help find the missing parts.  We reviewed that subtraction is Total - Part = Part and addition is Part + Part = Total.  
• Students practiced addition using double-facts or near-double facts.  

In science...

• Students participated in a science lab about plant pollination.  Using fake flowers and cooking flour (pollen), students transferred the pollen on the stamen of one flower to another flower of the same species' stigma using pipe cleaners, to simulate a bee's leg.  Students labeled a diagram of the plant parts and learned about others ways pollination can occur (wind and other animals). 

REMINDERS AND ANNOUCEMENTS

• Our field trip to HTY will be on December 1.  Please have your child wear shoes and bring home lunch on that day. 
• If you have not returned your child's progress portfolio and evidence binder, please do so.  Thank you!
• Our Parent activity is on December 14.  A yellow participation/attendance form went home regarding this activity. If you have not returned this form please turn it in as soon as possible so we can get a more accurate head count.