Vol. XXVII, No. 21 March 20, 2009
THE NEWS
This week the class continued to explore words with multiple meanings, learned strategies for
spelling the ‘ct, ld, and ft’ sounds, the formation of the upper case cursive ‘B, P, and R,’ planned a party
in math, learned about ordering events in a story, about cause and effect in stories, about the
characteristics that allow owls to be such effective predators, about forming generalizations about what
is read, more about figurative language (similes and metaphors), read about whales in their language
arts reading anthology, learned how to interpret a food product’s nutrition breakdown label, dissected
owl pellets, put finishing touches on Indian pictograph stories, dissected more numbers in math,
learned about parakeets, lady’s slippers, mice, underwater volcanoes, and the Bermuda Triangle, and
interpreted a chart and a graph, Did you know that Native Americans used lady’s slippers to treat
toothaches? It is also true that the ancient Egyptians introduced parakeets to the west, mice are native
to Asia and their journey to our part of the world first occurred by immigrating to Europe and from
there to the New World via trading and colonial vessels, tube worms that populate the area around
underwater volcanic vents can grow up to eight feet long, and
For this issue I have returned to last week’s question and asked the boys and girls to surmise what
the first word ever spoken was:
“Apple,” Owen
“Keboosenooweff,” Zeda
“Eat,” Kevin
“Human,” Fiona
“Life,” Lindsay
“Eve,” Zachary
“Moccasin,” Jonathan
“Hungry,” Cecelia
“The,” Kim
“War,” Hannah
“Oomateft,” Samantha
“Peace,” Colleen
“Forbidden,” Jay
“Hug,” Dylan
