Weekly Update 5/9

 Thank you all for making our Field Trip to the Phoenix Children's Museum such a success! The children had an amazing time and it was so fun:)

Upcoming Q4: 

May 20, 21, 23  - Early release at 12:30

May 21st: Kindergarten promotion 

         **Doors open @ 10:30, ceremony starts @11:00 am, all classes together**

We are asking for Cookie donations for the graduates at the end of our celebration: these will be given upon returning the school graduate gown: https://signup.com/go/ovPCXhF

Spalding:

Continue practicing and reviewing your phonograms, always making sure to change the order of sounds and words. We are doing well using our phonograms to sound out words when we read and when we write. This is a great support as you read and write at home too.

Literature:

We continued and finished Mouse Tales. We also continued to practice summarizing each short chapter in a sentence and writing it together in our journal. For poetry, this week, we reviewed the poem Roses are Red.  We talked about what this poem was about and what the words meant. In Grammar, we listen to a simple sentence said 3 times, and then the students had to try to write it independently. They practiced looking over their sentence to check for a capital, spaces, and punctuation. They are also practicing reading back over what they wrote to make sure it makes sense. 

Math:

We are working through learning about place value and numbers to 100. This week we focused on counting on after a random number. The students are so used to rote counting from 1 or from a 10 so this week we challenged them a little. They were tasked to look at a group of objects and given the number. Next they had to count on to figure out the total number. You can help support your child's learning by saying a random number and asking your child to say the following 5 sequential numbers. It doesn't sound like a hard task, but try it out to see if it is a skill your child needs help in developing.

History:

We learned about tall tales, which are funny stories with lots of exaggeration and larger-than-life characters. To help us understand, we read Pecos Bill and Slue-Foot Sue. Pecos Bill was a cowboy who did amazing things like riding a tornado, and Slue-Foot Sue was his brave girlfriend who rode a giant catfish. Their story showed us how tall tales are meant to be fun and imaginative, often showing the spirit of adventure.

Science:

We also learned about storms and how they form. Storms happen when warm, moist air rises and meets cooler air, causing clouds, rain, thunder, and lightning. We talked about different types of storms like thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes. We also learned how to stay safe during a storm by going indoors and staying away from windows.