New from the Jungle
March 22, 2019
This weekend is supposed to be beautiful! I hope you all enjoy the nice weather!
Below please find upcoming events, including our upcoming spelling words for the rest of the month:
Upcoming Events
3/18 – 3/22 Scholastic Book Fair
3/20 Scholastic Book fair family night
3/22 Spelling Words: will, what, mom, red, fed, wed, led, bed, sled, sped
3/29 Spelling Words: where, out, now, sip, lip, dip, slip, ship, chip, grip
Agenda for the Week
Reading and Writing: We really worked on our writing this week and focused on using a noun, verb, adjective, and even tried to include the setting (where the story takes place). I modeled for the children taking two animals and combining them together. They really enjoyed this concept. For example, in class, I combined a monkey and a lion together and called it a lonkey. I drew a picture of what this animal might look like and wrote a sentence like this, “The silly lonkey is throwing bananas at people in the zoo.” Many of the children chose to combine two different superheroes together to create new super powers and with many of the students a kitty-corn was very popular, that is a unicorn combined with a kitten. It looked like a kitten with a unicorn horn! This was a fun way to get the children excited about writing!
We continue learning about digraphs. We have worked on Ch, Sh, Th, and touched a little bit on Wh. The children are trying to use these new skills in their writing to help them spell more words.
Math: We continue learning subtraction. The children are sometimes confused between addition and subtraction. We are working on understanding that when we add we are putting numbers together and the overall number gets bigger. We are learning that when we subtract we are taking away and the overall number represents how many are left and is smaller.
The children also enjoyed this video about subtraction:
Many of the children are mixing up their teen numbers and writing and reading them backwards. For example, they call 14 the number 41. Please have your child watch the video below to help them learn that numbers in the teens begin with a one:
Social Studies: We continue learning about maps. We are working with our fourth grade buddies to create our own city on giant paper. We also learned how to follow directions and created maps of our bedroom and classroom.
Housekeeping Items:
Money
Money needs to be in an envelope with your child’s name and state for what the money should be used.
Folders
Please make sure to empty the folder 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. Please be sure to send the folder to school each day. It is a big part of our arrival and dismissal routines and the folders help the children keep all of their papers organized.
Change of clothes
Please send in a change of clothes (pants, shirt, underwear, socks) in a gallon bag with their name clearly written on the baggie. My most frequent call home is to ask for parents to bring a change of clothes to school. Even the most disciplined children have accidents at school sometimes. We have so much fun during the day that sometimes the children do not want to stop to use the bathroom when needed. Not only do bathroom accidents happen, but sometimes the playground equipment is wet or the ground is muddy. Having a change of clothes at school makes it easy for me and for you to help your child feel clean and comfortable in the quickest way possible. We will leave the baggie of clothes in their locker at school.
