Mr. Storey

Room 21 has been very busy.   We are working really hard on math, science, ELA, and social studies in our classroom.  For math, we have finished our time unit and have moved on to place value and estimation.  Soon, we will break out the big jars of marbles, rocks, and other little things, and the students will learn how to estimate based on educated guesses.

In ELA we are focusing on reading skills as well as spelling.  We have students who are working on their short and long vowels, others who are focusing on h-blends (sh, ch, th, wh), and several who are working hard with more complex compound words, adjectives, and adverbs.

For science we are learning all about light.  We have learned how light affects our lives and the different kinds of light there are.   In the next month, we will be using lasers to learn how light bends and at the end of our unit, we will have a big science fair where the students will be able to move from station to station doing small experiments about how light works.

But the best part of October just happened.  We had our fall field trip to the Children’s Museum!  This is a very fun and educational trip.  This year we got to make mirror prisms that reflected a design in a kaleidoscope.  What an amazing hands-on activity.  Of course, the students got to spend a lot of time playing with all the science related activities in the play area.