News From the Jungle

The children won the lunch room challenge this week and were able to enjoy popsicles as a reward! Great job to everyone for working hard during lunchtime to follow the rules and clean up.

Upcoming Events

4/24 First Grade Market Day

4/26 Field Trip to Domino Farms

4/27 -4 Math Facts Quiz

4/27 Spelling Test: from, went, him, cub, rub, sub, tub, club, stub, shrub

4/30 PBIS Celebration (Art in the Park)

5/4 -5 Math Facts Quiz

5/4 Spelling Test: they, come, his, good, jam, yam, ram, clam, slam, swam

5/11 -6 Math Facts Quiz

5/11 Spelling Test: jump, down, her, eat, tag, wag, bag, rag, flag, brag

5/18 -7 Math Facts Quiz

5/18 Spelling Test: first, next, last, will, grin, crab, clip, shark, twig, flat

5/24 -8 Math Facts Quiz (This is the last Math Quiz!)

5/24 Spelling Test: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring (This is the last spelling test!)

Agenda for the Week

Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 4/27: from, went, him, cub, rub, sub, tub, club, stub

Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: shrub, scrub

These words will be in the homework which will come home on Monday after break!

Reading and Writing: This week we focused on long and short vowel sounds and identifying which is which by sound and sorted words with the long vowel sound. We continue to sound out words and have been focusing on digraphs such as th, ch, sh, ph, and wh.

Math: The children took their – 3 math test today! Next week, we will focus on learning -4 math facts. Our test will be on Friday, April 27th.

Science: We continued our ocean unit by learning about animals who live in the ocean. We are working on many crafts in order to turn our classroom into an ocean. The children are loving doing all of these crafts and learning facts about ocean animals. This week we also had the opportunity to look at shells, seahorses, puffer fish, and even a shark jaw which were leant to us by Mrs. Lahooti. We were so grateful to have time to look and touch all of these interesting shells and animals.

We made angler fish last week and learned about how they live in the midnight zone. This week we created a midnight zone photo booth to have some fun taking pictures in front of. This will still be up on June 1st when all of you are able to come in and see our ocean classroom and you can take pictures as a family!

We learned about how whales use echolocation. We did a simple experiment to demonstrate how sound can bounce off of objects in order for the children to better understand echolocation.

Social Studies: This week we began talking about democracy. We thought about how we are able to vote to make decisions. We thought about what we know about American symbols, such as the flag. We also talked about what we think the president’s job duties are and for what he is responsible. We will continue to discuss these topics next week.

Housekeeping Items:

Money: Please make sure to send money in an envelope or baggie labeled with your child’s name and what the money will be used for. Thank you for your help!

Spelling booklets: Please be sure to return these promptly on Tuesday!

Snack Time

**** Due to a peanut allergy in our room, please do not send in any snacks that contain nuts.*****

Folders

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. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!