News From The Jungle

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

3/21 Scholastic Book Order due

3/20 – 3/24 PTA Popcorn Sales

3/29 Conferences (Only for families contacted by teacher)

3/29 PBIS Celebration – Game Day (puzzles and board games – no electronics)

3/31 PTA Ice Cream Social

4/1 – 4/9 SPRING BREAK!!!

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We are still working on narrative writing. The children know that narrative writing is to tell a story and to entertain the reader. The children are learning about camping and practicing using transition words (first, next, then, last) to sequence events that happen when one goes camping.  We began using all of the information that we have brainstormed to complete our writing blueprint (graphic organizer). Next week, we will use these blueprints to help us complete our own books about camping. The children will be the author and the illustrator of their books! They will create the cover, title, write a introduction, tell the events as they happened (in order), and conclude the story. I am so excited to see how the children’s stories will turn out!

Spelling words for next week will be in the homework packet coming home on Monday.

Math: We took our +9 math quiz on Monday due to school being closed last week. We took it just to see how we could do and most of the children did a wonderful job! Friday, we completed our +10 math quiz. Yesterday, I sent home the -0 flashcards for practice. We will take the -0 quiz on Friday, March 24th.

This week continued learning about comparing numbers using the greater than, less than, and equal to symbols. We also focused more on subtraction and different ways to decompose numbers. We practiced drawing the biggest number with circles and then crossing off the number of circles being “taken away.” We also reviewed using a number line to subtract. We started practicing putting the biggest number in our head and the small number on our hands, then counting down to find the answer. Example: 7 – 4 =? “I have 7 in my head and 4 on my hands (hold up 4 fingers). Touch your head and say 7, then put down one finger at a time while counting down (backwards), 6, 5, 4, 3. Three is the answer.

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).

Science: We are still learning about the basic needs of living things. This week we began comparing living and nonliving things. The children completed a book about living and nonliving things where the children had to complete the words of each thing that was living or nonliving by cutting out the letters and listening to the sounds they heard in the word.

Social Studies: We began discussing maps. We talked about the shape of Michigan and located where we live on our hands! The children observed that our state looks like a mitten. We reviewed the name of our country and what the flag looks like. We will continue talking about maps and globes and complete activities to reinforce 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.