News from the Jungle
March 29, 2019
I hope you all enjoy your spring break! Safe travels to all those traveling during the break! I will be enjoying my time at home with Stella and do not plan on doing much of anything except snuggling that baby!
With the weather becoming warmer, the ground is soft and muddy. Many of the children fall during recess and end up with muddy, dirty pants. Please put an extra pair of pants in their backpacks for this time of year so that we can easily have them change at school and will not need to call home and have you bring a change of clothes for them! Thank you!
Below please find upcoming events, including our upcoming spelling words for the rest of the school year:
Upcoming Events
4/1 – 4/5 NO SCHOOL! Spring Break!
4/11 Spelling Words:little, have, us, dog, log, jog, hog, blog, frog, clog
4/12 Bowling Field Trip
4/17 Scholastic book order due
4/18 Spelling Words: from, went, him, cub, rub, sub, tub, club stub, shrub
4/19 No School!!!
4/24 Late Start – 9:35am
4/26 Spelling Words: they, come, his, good, jam, yam, ram, clam, slam, swam
5/3 Spelling Words: jump, down, her, eat, tag, wag, bag, rag, flag, brag
5/10 Spelling Words: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring
5/15 Late Start – 9:35am
5/24 – 5/27 No School!!!
Agenda for the Week
Reading and Writing: We continue to work on our reading comprehension, decoding words, and our writing. I am stressing to the children that they need to be using lowercase letters in their writing. Many of the children use uppercase letters randomly throughout their writing. I am trying to teach them that they need only use uppercase at the beginning of a sentence, for names of people or places, and when I stands alone. We continue to learn digraphs (sh, ch, wh, th, ph). We review er at the end of a word when we hear the errrrr sound and ar in a word when we hear arrrrrrr like a pirate.
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.
Science: We did an engineering project where we had to build a habitat for a superhero. The children worked together in teams to build a house for their superhero. They had to use their building supplies and make sure that their superhero fit inside of their house. The children really had a lot of fun problem solving and working together to accomplish this task.
Social Studies: We will finish our giant city maps when we return from break! The children have been enjoying learning about maps, creating maps, and following directions on maps!
Housekeeping Items:
Children still need a snack every day! They get very hungry. We will have snack every day until the very last day of school. Please continue to send your child with a healthy snack each day! Thank you!
