Monday, February 24, 2025

Weekly Update 2/21

  Important upcoming dates:

3/4: Kindergarten graduation pictures (students will be wearing a hat so please consider this when doing hair)
3/7: Early Dismissal at 12:30
3/14-3/15: Spring Break
3/28: Spirit Wear, Birthday Book club & Treat Friday
4/5: Fine Arts Festival at Archway Lincoln with Usborne Booksale
4/18-21: No school

**Field Trip for Kindergarten is scheduled for May 9- more info to come **
***Kinder celebration will be held on May 21st at 11 am

Check out what we learned this week:


Spalding:

Please continue to review phonograms 1-70 by focusing on 10-15 cards each night. Remind your child seeing, saying, and hearing each phonogram will help their brain catch on faster. Then, please encourage them to use those phonograms as they read and write. We have been working very hard in school to practice writing sentences, remembering Capitals and spaces, sounding out, and punctuation. 


Literature:

We are also coming to a close of our Fairy Tale unit and read Cinderella this week. We discussed Cinderella's kind-hearted actions towards her family at the end of the story. For Poetry, we read Sing a Song of Sixpence and learned many vocabulary words we did not know. We also found many rhyming words. In grammar, we read multiple short stories and shared how the characters behaved in the story by creating a retelling using the words First, Next, Then, and Last. 


Math:

This week in math we finished learning all of our addition strategies. Once the scholars choose the method they are most comfortable and confident in we like to encourage them to continually solve their problems that way. Now that we know the "how" and "why" behind addition, we can move on to becoming quicker at solving the answers and eventually memorizing our math facts. We will continue to practice addition with sums to 10 for the next week to really cement the addition process for the students.


History:

We discussed the importance of President's Day and why the holiday causes schools to be closed. The students understand that this is a day to honor and celebrate our current and past Presidents of the United States of America. We learned about our first President, George Washington, who is often called the father of our country. They were eager to guess which coin and bill George Washington's face was on! We were excited to learn that President Washington loved animals. 


Science:

As we began wrapping up our unit on forces, the students investigated the theory of magnetism. We recognized how magnets are attracted to certain things, which feels like a strong pull. We discovered what was magnetic and what was not. We also learned that sometimes magnets repel away from each other, which feels like a strong push. We noticed that magnets have a North and South pole, which is what determines if they will attract or repel the other magnet.

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