Dear Parents,
I hope you all had a wonderful vacation! I loved hearing all the stories that your children came back with! They were all excited to share what special times you had last week.
We have had a busy week in Room 115! We have started learning all about seeds, trees, and plants. We will start learning about insects next week. The students made trees and labeled each of the parts at the art table. They wrote in their journals about their vacations, what trees give us, and about seeds. Their writing is coming along nicely. We have been practicing putting spaces between our words, periods at the end of the sentences, and uppercase letters at the beginning of sentences. We will be starting our last writing unit on narrative writing and they will be writing stories about themselves and some things they have done!
In math we started a new unit on the position and location of objects. The concepts have been more of a review for the students so we have been trying to come up with some fun and creative ways to practice them. I will be getting ready to assess the students’ addition and subtraction fluency facts in a couple of weeks as well as their sight words. I would encourage you to continue working on these daily.
We planted sunflower seeds this week. We will watch them grow and then send home the plants after they have grown a little so you can plant them somewhere at your home. We have also started taking pictures of a few different plants/trees around our school and have been discussing the changes in nature we have been observing. I would encourage you to do something similar at home if you are able to. I would love for students to bring in their pictures or drawings in a few weeks to show us the changes in nature they observed at their homes!
Enjoy your weekend!
Melanie Duncan
PS… Our next field trip will be on Friday, May 29th. We are going on a nature hike in the Middlesex Fells Nature Reservation. More information will go home next week. If you are interested in chaperoning, please let me know. I can take as many as are interested!
No comments:
Post a Comment