News From the Jungle
March 31, 2017
I hope everyone enjoys time with family and friends during this break! If you are traveling, I wish you safe travels and a relaxing vacation!
There is a homework packet coming home for spring break. It will review some of our old spelling words.
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
4/1 – 4/9 SPRING BREAK!!!!
Agenda for the Week
Reading/Writing: We finally completed the blueprint (graphic organizer) on camping for narrative writing. I am still hoping to get the children to turn the blueprints into books, but with spring break next week, they may not remember what they wrote by the time we come back!
In April we will be transitioning back to informational writing and linking our science, reading, and writing together to complete reports about ocean animals.
Spelling words for the week we come back are as follows: had, mad, rad, dad, with, this
These words will be assessed on Thursday, April 13th.
Math: We took our -1 math quiz today. The children did quite well! Today, I sent home the -2 flashcards for practice over spring break. We will take the -2 quiz on Thursday, April 13th.
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 continued comparing living and nonliving things. Soon we will begin learning about ocean animals and their needs! This is a fun unit that the children always enjoy!
Social Studies: We are still learning about maps. We completed a few activities about maps (how to get to school from home, following directions on a map using steps and north, south east, west). The children are really enjoying learning about maps and talking about countries around the world. We will continue talking about “my earth” for the rest of the year. We will discuss recycling in April and learn about how to take care of our world!
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.
