Important Dates:
Friday, June 15th- Highland Playground Tuesday, June 18th- LAST DAY! Walking field trip to Main St. Ice Cream |
What a joy it was to experience some mild winter weather this week. We enjoyed some time breathing in oxygen outside on the playground and releasing CO2 as we exhaled. This paired well with our discussion on matter and the different forms it takes, plus any excuse to go outside on a beautiful day is a good one!
With the season of many germs around, please remind your child about proper hand-washing and techniques for staying as healthy as possible. :) Mrs. Agle gave more information on this in this month's Bulldog Buzz. Yearbook orders have gone home. If purchasing a yearbook is a financial burden for your family, but you'd like your child to have one. Please reach out to Mrs. Cantie, our school social worker, as she can assist with funding. [email protected] Remember to check Seesaw for updates and classroom pictures! Reading: We focused on long vowel a and o this week in some groups, while also discussing the Summer Olympics in preparation for our next story. Other groups continued reading their books talking about setting and character traits. Math: Unit 4 Subtraction For many students, this is a more difficult unit. We are practicing subtracting using regrouping. The students were taught the following steps to solve: 1 - write and draw the total, the number you are beginning with 2 - look at the ones place, is there more on the floor or more up top? More on the floor - go next door and borrow ten more. More on the top - stop right now, do your subtraction (bringing in the Spice Girl's Stop Right Now tun to reminisce on the 90s). Update your drawing and problem. 3- Repeat step 2 if necessary for the tens place. 4- Solve. We have practiced this skill on workbook pages and whiteboards with problems about the students, they always enjoy when I work their names into word problems. Social Studies We collaborated with our partners in Mrs. Smith's room to complete information sheets on the Olympic countries we are studying. Students looked up the number of participants, males, females, sports participating in, language spoken, continent on, look of flag, and 5 fun facts. We can't wait for February 9th to start tracking the medals! Writing In writing students are learning to expand their writing into multi paragraphs. I have taught them to keep the writing they've already done as their first paragraph, then taking each detail paragraph and expanding on it in its own paragraph. We used our journal entries to study how we can do this, and will be practicing it more in the following weeks.
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