As we have been learning about landforms and bodies of water, we performed a writing activity in which Danny had to copy the correct word matching the description. For example, one statement asked which is big and salty and Danny copied the word "ocean". We practiced this with ocean, lake, river, hill, mountain, and plain. We then sorted them by water or land.
Next, we read a non-fiction selection entitled, Martin Luther King, Jr. by Grace Hansen. We enjoyed seeing these real-life pictures of Dr. King. We talked about that civil rights means treating all people fairly and equally. We then answered several two-choice questions to practice recall about the material we read. Additionally, we began a new unit of Florida Studies Weekly entitled Maps and Globes. This gave us a basic overview that maps are flat and globes are round. We found the United States and Florida on the map. We watched a Brain Pop Jr. learning video about reading maps. Annie and Moby shared how maps can be used to help us find where we are going as well as show other things like population or precipitation amounts. Maps show us states, cities, countries, and continents. We learned terms such as map key (shows what the symbols on a map mean) and the compass rose shows us the cardinal directions which helps us read the map. We talked further about the cardinal directions (north, south, east, and west) and labeled the walls in his room accordingly. Finally, we completed the page about lakes in Danny's Geography book. In this activity, Danny found things that could be found on a lake and worked on categorizing more specifically by then marking only the animals found in a lake a different way.