Week 7

Hello! Happy Friday! We had an AMAZING week, full of discovery, wonder, and just a LITTLE bit of vinegar stink!

Students have been working so hard to master renaming!

Our EGG-speriment Part 1! We learned about the parts of the egg, and held the egg with "soft hands"

Wednesday math centers! Students, teachers and parents had so much fun with this small group time!

We had a BIG debate over whether animals can talk. This was the side that voted that animals COULD NOT talk. The argument was they can communicate, just in a different language, things got a little heated :]

Egg-speriment part 2! The egg shells totally dissolved in the vinegar! Leaving a weird looking and soft feeling egg behind! The classroom still smells like vinegar!

Updates and Announcements:

• Take home readers will begin to go home with each student on Monday, along with a reading reflection log. Instead of needing a parent initial I will know student have read each night because they completed a page in their log.
• We are running low on tissues, hand sanitizer, and disinfecting wipes, things are not desperate yet, BUT if you have an extra box or two lying around I will gladly take it off your hands!
• Thank you to all who were able to attend Math and Phonics night! I talked a lot about math games to play at home, and referenced a very helpful document. You can find that here! I apologize it is not the highest quality of scanning, but the material is gold :]

Here is a look at our learning this week:

Language arts: We will continue working on Spalding phonograms and spelling words. Please be practicing the phonograms with your child each evening! In grammar we will learn about adjectives and article adjectives. We have been learning fun, catchy songs to help us remember the difference between all the parts of speech. Ask your grammar professional to sing their favorite song to you this week! We will continue to practice the poem Something Told the Wild Geese. We watched this video this past week, and the students love the chorale version of it! In literature we are deep in Charlotte's Web, we will follow the family as they attend the fair, and we will keep our fingers cross for Wilbur as his fate is still unclear!

Math: In math we will work on regrouping ten ones as one ten. While doing homework have your child articulate what they are doing (my answer is 14, so I will rename 10 ones as 1 ten, and leave 4 ones). We will work on recognizing even and odd numbers. We will also be adding 3 numbers together! The students are doing great with mental math, I am so impressed by the hard work and dedication.

History; This week, we will continue to journey through Japan, learning about the rich Japanese traditions in art and nature. Students will play a review game and take home a study guide for the unit test on Friday!

Science: In science we will be fluttering into our next science activity! Can you guess what it is? The butterfly life cycle! Ask your young scientist if they can identify the stages of life in animals we've learned so far: a chicken, a frog, and now a butterfly!