News from the Jungle

Just a reminder —

We are a NUT FREE room. We have children with nut allergies in our room and therefore all snacks may not contain any nuts! You may send your child with a lunch that contains nuts because the children with allergies sit at a different table, however, in our classroom, we need to remain nut free. Thank you for your cooperation in keeping all of the children safe!

Below please find upcoming events, including our upcoming spelling words for the rest of the school year:

Upcoming Events

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 working on compound words this week. The children are still really excited about compound words. In writing we have been working on using our spelling words and including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and telling where everything is happening. The children continue to use letter sounds to stretch out words and listen for the sounds the letters make. We are trying to spell more complex words and utilize skills we have learned such as letter blends (bl, cr, gr, tr, dr, sl, etc) and “the H brothers (ch, th, wh, sh).

Math: We have been working on the words increase and decrease and talking about a group of ten and one more or one less. The children are having an easier time with 10 plus a number and having a little bit harder time with subtraction. We have also still been working on comparing numbers 11 – 20 and using symbols greater than, less than, and equal to. We have been working on understanding that numbers in the teens start with a one and that if we reverse the numbers it makes a total different number. Please continue to practice addition and subtraction with your child at home, as well as writing numbers to 100, counting by 5s, 10s, and 2s (if they can), and finding a group of ten and then counting up from there.

Science: We are learning about the earth and how to recycle! We are also beginning to learn about ocean animals and how they depend on their habitats! This week we began learning about the ocean zones and completed a craft in order for the children to understand which animals live in which zones.

Social Studies: We began discussing democracy and made voter registration cards! We will take a few polls in class and cast votes on our favorite snack and favorite animals next week.

Housekeeping Items:

NUT FREE ROOM!!!

Please do not send any snacks with nuts!

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!