Friday, April 8, 2016

April

This month is very exciting for our class!

We are finishing up our unit on Long Ago and Today.  We have looked at how people communicated, dressed, farmed, traveled, and even played long ago.  The children have had made many comparisons and have been very fascinated with this.  We are excited to visit Rosehill Manor next week.  This is one of my favorite field trips and a wonderful experience for the children.

Click on the link below to find out more information about the museum.

Rose Hill Manor Park & Children's Museum


After this unit we are switching gears back to Science and learning about plants, what they need to survive, how they grow, parts of a plant and conducting experiments.  We will become scientists and observe changes in plants that will be grown in the classroom, too!

We have been working on long and short vowels during Language Arts, as well as strategies for how to read unfamiliar words and using text clues to define words, understand what is being read, and to infer.  I am amazed at the progress of each child and where they began in August!  Please visit the Language Arts tab, parent tab, and student tab above for more tips on how to work with your child and activities/games for your child at home.

Last but not least, in Math we are having such fun solving math story problems, and representing addition and subtraction number sentences.  We will be visiting 2-D and 3-D shapes, again, and then moving back to story problems sometime in May.