Weekly Update 3/21

  Important Upcoming Dates:

3/28: Spirit Wear, Birthday Book club & Treat Friday

4/5: Fine Arts Festival at Archway Lincoln 

4/18-4/21: No School

5/9: Kindergarten Field Trip - more information soon

***Kinder celebration will be held on May 21st at 11 am***

Save the Date - Fine Arts Festival

On Saturday, April 5, from 9am-1pm, we will hold a Fine Arts Festival. Bring the family and enjoy a walking tour of artwork, Recorded music performances, Food trucks, face painting, picture props, and more family fun!

IMPORTANT:

It is time to send in the student readers from Part A&B consumables. Please do so next week. Make sure it has your child's name is written inside the cover.
Little Bear (Box set)- Else Holmelund Minarik ISBN: 978-0064441971  
Mouse Soup - Arnold Lobel ISBN: 978-0064440417

Spalding:

Phonograms learned 1-70. Please spend time practicing 10-15 cards nightly. Please focus on saying the sounds so they can write the matching phonogram. Hearing the sounds helps to build their sense of recognition for spelling words and writing sentences. 

*When reading and writing, help your scholar identify phonograms in the words and silent e-jobs to better understand the sounds they should read or need to spell words. 

Literature:

We spent our week reading The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. We enjoyed hearing about all the fun Pooh had with his friends. We learned that a narrator is someone who tells a story. We learned Pooh loves honey and is always a great friend. He often gets into trouble because he loves honey, but his friends are always willing to help him. For Poetry, we looked at one of the songs Winne the Pooh and Piglet sing together called The More It Snows. It has silly words and rhymes. In grammar, we began talking about questions and how when you're reading and speaking, it makes your voice change. We practiced asking, writing, and using a question mark in our sentences. 

Math:

We have switched our focus from addition to subtraction. The students explored the concept of subtraction in broad situations, discussing real life scenarios they may experience. For example, "I had 5 balloons. 2 of my balloons burst. How many balloons do I have left?" We practiced subtraction within 10 using pictures to match subtraction equations, crossing out how many are being taken away and circling what is left, then writing the matching subtraction sentence themselves. We have stressed the importance of what the subtraction symbol (-) means and how it differs from the addition symbol (+). 

History:

This week in history we traveled to a new continent, South America. The children were so excited to sing their favorite song about the continents, and learn about some of the different climates, and traditions of the continent south of us. The children loved the game we played from Colombia where they held on to a string and passed a small straw around the string. The child in the middle with their eyes closed had to guess who had the straw hiding in their hands. It's similar to hot potato. The children had so much fun and asked to play it again soon. 

Science

We started our new weather patterns unit this week! As an introduction, the students completed an experiment with water droppers and water, concluding that we can use water as a means of cooling off in case of a heat wave. They were introduced. They were introduced to other vocabulary, similar to heat, that we could use to describe the weather such as sunny, cloudy, cold, etc. We put on our scientist caps and began to fill data into a weather observation chart. We recorded the date, time, temperature, and other words to describe the weather at one specific moment.