We are learning about maps and our place in the world. Your child came home with a paper today to practice learning their continent, country, state, and community/town. Next week we will continue to learn this, and it is tricky.
We have a song we use to help them with this. It goes like this... I live in North America, it's the continent for me. I live in the Unites States, it's my country and it's free. I live in the state of New Hampshire, but where ever I may roam. I'll always come back to my community, New Boston is my home. We had fun making a Compass Rose. Be sure to ask your child to show you this and to explain it to you. Next week, it is all about time. We will be working on understanding the concept of time, learning about how we can use the sun to tell time, and we'll even make a sun dial or two.! We will be starting to focus on long vowel patterns. Next week it the a_e pattern. We will work on discriminating between the short and long sound. Our spelling words will focus on this pattern too. We do a lot during the week with these patterns. We read and write them often. We use magnet boards to make these patterns, we search for them in our reading, and we make them with play-doh and other objects. Even with all of this work, these new patterns are tricky. Please practice these patterns for a few minutes each evening. We have been working with IXL at school, and the kids are now ready to use this at home if they choose to do so. Their password information will come home on Monday with a letter about the program. Please keep this information in a safe place, as we may need to use it should we have a Remote Snow day. Lastly, our food drive is in full swing. We are categorizing and tallying the goods that come in. Thanks for your help with this! If you have not yet sent in the permission slip, please send it in next week. Comments are closed.
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