March 31-April 4
Hello families! Here's our weekly update! In literacy, we started learning about parts of speech. We learned that nouns are people, places, things, animals and ideas. Maria Montessori designed grammar materials to help teach these concepts. We use the black pyramid or a large black triangle to represent the nouns in a sentence. This shape was chosen because pyramids are a noun that have been around for a very long time! We talked a little bit about the difference between common nouns and proper nouns. Grade 1 examples Grade 2 examples We also learned about the magic e! This is sometimes referred to as a Silent E, Magic E or Bossy E. This is when we add an e to the end of a word and it changes the vowel sound (i.e. game, cake, rose, etc.) Here are our words for next week! In math, we worked on our April Calendar and continued working on fact families. Students had fun doing another "Esti Mystery" on Tuesday. We also worked on addition with miss...