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.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Math and Shapes


The past two weeks have been super fun in math!  The children have been working on identifying    3-D and 2-D shapes, describing them (faces, bases, sides, corners, vertices, etc.), finding similarities and differences and much more!

We have also noticed the different shapes within a solid figure (3-D shape) and have constructed them using marshmallows and toothpicks.

We will revisit shapes later this year and have now moved onto a math unit dealing with counting from any number to 50, representing numbers in different ways, recognizing and understanding numbers, and more.  You can find more information on our math curriculum here:





Thursday, January 21, 2016

Silent E

We watched a neat video clip from The Electric Company about the silent E.  You can click the snowflake below to enjoy it while on your snowy weekend!

 Silent E The Electric Company


Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Homework and Donations

HOMEWORK

Writing Homework Books were sent home on Monday.  Please make sure that your child includes a picture with his/her writing.  Below is an example of a writing piece from a student with a picture on top and words on the bottom half of the page.  Information on how to help your child complete the homework is inside the Writing Homework Book.  Please have your child return it to school every Friday.  Please feel free to ask me any questions.


Little Book Bags will now be sent home every day from Monday to Thursday.  Please make sure that your child brings this book back the next school day.  We will be using it in your child's small reading group instruction.  

Poetry Folders will be going home once each week, either on Mondays or Tuesdays.  Your child is to bring it back the next school day.  

CLASS DONATIONS

We are looking for donations to help create games in the classroom and party items.  A Valentine's party letter will also be sent home soon, be on the lookout for it in your child's folder.
We are looking for:

Gallon sized Ziploc Bags
24 Paper White Bags with Handles (an example of it is below) to put Valentine's cards in

Thank you for your support!

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Tynker and Computer Programming

We have been working on fun activities in school dealing with the beginnings of computer programming.  You can go to www.tynker.com and click on the words, "Hour of Code" for free activities or click on the icon below to take you directly there.  The children have enjoyed working on them, starting at the Kindergarten age level and beyond.  Happy programming!


 Tynker



Thursday, November 12, 2015

American Education Week

We are so excited to invite you to American Education Week at our school!  This is a time when you are able to come into the classroom to interact and observe your child learning.  Prior to the classroom visit is a parent presentation by the school principals.  Feel free to visit our school from 11:20 a.m.-12:55 p.m. on Tuesday, November 17th.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Applesauce


Thank you so much for sending in apples for our Apple Week.  The children used the apples in so many different ways: identifying parts of the apple, the life cycle of an apple, graphing our favorite apples, writing about apples using our 5 senses, reading a variety of text formats, and much more!  On Friday, our class read a recipe and then made applesauce in the classroom.  



Crock Pot Applesauce

Ingredients:
8 apples
1/2 cup water
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions:

1.  Peel, core and cut the apples into small pieces.
2.  Put the apple pieces into a slow cooker.
3.  Pour in the water.
4.  Turn the slow cooker on low and cook for 3 hours or until soft.
5.  Add the cinnamon and cook for an additional 30 minutes (optional).
6.  Stir the apples or use a potato masher to break up the apples.
7. Enjoy!