News from the Jungle
February 10, 2017
Please put your child on readingeggs.com at home and have them do a couple of lessons each night. This can count on the reading log in the homework for some of the nightly reading!
Upcoming Events
2/14 Valentine’s Day Party
2/15 Late Start – 9:45am
2/15 Scholastic Book Order Due
2/17 Exotic Zoo Assembly
2/17 Haigh School Store open during lunch hours
2/17 100th day of school!(Collection of 100 items project and dress like your 100)
2/20 – 2/24 Mid-Winter Break
2/28 PBIS PARTY – Beach Fun
Agenda for the Week
Reading/Writing: We continue to work on informational reading and writing through researching hibernation. We are learning about bears, bats, ladybugs, and groundhogs. We have completed our research and writing about groundhogs and bats. Next week we will move on to bears and bats. The children are learning how to write a topic sentence, how to include three facts about the topic, and how to conclude their paper using a summary sentence.
Spelling words for next week will be in the homework packet coming home on Monday.
Please continue to have your child practice writing at home. Here is what I am looking for in class:
Uppercase to start the sentence
End punctuation (. ! ?)
Finger spaces between words
Does the sentence make sense? Are the words in the correct order?
Does the picture match the words?
Did you stretch your sentence? (Is there a noun, adjective, and verb?)
Math: We took our +6 math quiz. Today, I sent home the +7 flashcards. We will take the +7 quiz on Friday, February 17th.
Please continue to practice counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100 with your child at home. Also practice counting to 30 by 2’s (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20…..). Other activities you can practice at home are using tally marks to count objects, identifying 2D/3D shapes around the house of community, and really making sure your child has good one-to-one correspondence when counting (this means that they touch each object as they are counting and count all objects correctly).
Social Studies: We began talking about geography and continue discussing the world around us, our community, maps, and globes. We read a book about a little boy who got a map and he was able to have adventures all over the world through using his imagination.
Science: We began learning about the basic needs of living things. This unit will take a few months to complete. We know that living things need food, shelter, air, water, and space. While we are learning about the needs of living things, we have been researching hibernation and migration. We have been learning about the needs of animals which hibernate. We have talked about how animals store food or eat lots of food before winter hibernation. Some animals do not get up to eat at all during hibernation. The children are very curious about hibernation and have been enjoying reading books and researching this topic.
Housekeeping Items:
Children need a snack each day! Please do not send candy as a snack. The children need a healthy snack each day such as fruit, crackers, cheese, yogurt, granola bars, etc. As a reminder, no juice is allowed in class for snack.
Please make sure reading books are placed back in the green book pouches each night and returned to school every morning.
Please make sure to record the reading that you do with your child each night on the reading log in the homework.
Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before.
