The Teamwork Tigers have done an excellent job this week. We are asking lots of great curiosity questions and we are very curious about the day and night sky. We will wrap this up by learning about the phases of the moon. Be sure to bring any answered curiosity questions from the week back in! We love to hear the answers and how the answers were found!
We are reading, reading, and reading! We are learning to answer questions in many ways, and we are learning to respond thoroughly to our reading response questions. Drawing is also one way we share what we know about our reading. Today we investigated the style of author/illustrator Kevin Henkes. We then tried out his style to create pictures that depicted key details from his story, Kitten's First Full Moon. We are having fun adding adjectives to our writing. We are working on narratives on what we will do When Spring Comes... In math, we are learning those fact families to twenty. We are solving missing addend problems, and figuring out what is best in certain math situations...sometimes counting up is the way to go, and sometimes counting back might just do the trick! During science, we learned how water is essential to plants, and how water can move up through the roots to all parts of the plant. I hope your child shared the unfolding flower experiment with you! The Book Fair and Read A Thon are next week. Information on this came home last week. There are also special reading events throughout the week. For more information, be sure to check out the school wide bulletin. Our day to purchase at the Book Fair will be Tuesday. Report cards will be emailed by the administrative office on March 25th. Last week we had an awesome creative build of Leprechaun Land. It was apparent on March 17th that the leprechauns loved our homes and land. They left a few Starbursts and there was a Gnome living in every house! Some even think that maybe those gnomes are leprechauns in disguise! In math we are learning about fact families. This takes our basic facts knowledge and applies it to the understanding that for each fact there are 3 numbers that work together to make a Fact Family. For instance, 7, 3, 10 work together to make the following facts. 7+3=10, 3+7=10, 10-3=7 and 10-7=3. We are learning these fact families to 20. Practicing these at home is also encouraged. Next week we will be reading 3 selections about the sky. The class will have an optional enrichment assignment to observe the moon. The Moon Tracking paper will come home on Monday. We will be brainstorming signs of spring and we will begin to look for these during our Forest School times. We will be writing narratives about our ideas for spring. We are working heavily on our story comprehension. We will now have a weekly vocabulary and comprehension assessment on one of our reading selections. Additionally, we are working on taking quizzes on our independent reading selections. It is essential that your children return their Thursday homework books on Friday, as they do use this for their reading quiz on Fridays. We have had several children without books to use. Sometimes I have an extra copy for use, but it is not the case with every book. Please return these books on Friday, even if you did not get a chance to read it with your child. There is a lot happening around reading this month. Information-about our Read-A-Thon and Book Fair went home last week. These events will all happen starting March 28th. We had a wonderful week back from our vacation.
We are completing our sixth math unit, and we will be moving into fact families to 20, attributes, and shapes. This past week we read about animal scientists and we also learned about sound vibrations. We learned how cartoonists use every day objects to make the silly sounds we hear in cartoons. We even made our own silly sounds. Your children are reading, reading, and reading! Please remember to look for the Homework/Celebration book each Thursday. It will be in your child's folder. Please have your child read this on Thursday and return the book and signed paper on Friday. Please don't keep the book for another day, as we use the books in class for discussions or projects. Our spelling check ins will return to Thursdays. Last week was different due to the short week. Practicing for 10 minutes daily is encouraged. Making the words in play-doh, sugar, salt, sand, etc. is a great way to practice and play. We will be having a building project this week on Wednesday. If you have any small cardboard boxes (jewelry size, toothpaste size, or smaller) please have your child bring them in. We will need them by Wednesday. Thank you! Hello Families, I hope everyone has had a restful and fun vacation! I look forward to welcoming the class back on Monday. This week we will be wrapping up our reading unit on animals. We will be learning how animals and people work together. For this week, our spelling check in will be on Friday. Although we work daily on these patterns, 5-10 minutes of daily home practice/reinforcement of the pattern for both spelling and reading will go along way in your child's long term learning of the skill. During math time, we are wrapping up our 6th math unit. This one has focused on subtraction and place value application. If you are looking for ways to support your child's learning at-home, I recommend accessing our Wonders, EveryDay Mathematics, and IXL learning platforms. If you need me to re-send your child's passwords, please feel free to reach out. Our science work will focus on sound and light energy. This week we will be learning about sound. This week the students will be learning about the cafeteria and we will begin to have lunch there on Wednesday. We are entering New Hampshire's fifth season...MUD SEASON! I encourage students to still wear boots. The playground is very muddy and wet. Wearing boots and/or bringing a spare pair of shoes to keep here for indoors is encouraged. We often spread out to learn on the floor, and we do our best to keep that a clean space. Indoor shoes will help the keep the mud and dirt outside. Families, my website is to keep you updated on the happenings in our classroom. Please be sure to check the Weekly Bobcat News for information on school-wide information and events. |
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