7 Weeks to go!

Hi Families!


Only 7 more weeks until your babies are first graders!!!!!! It's so exciting we can barely stand it!

This week, we have extra excitement added because we are hatching baby chicks! The eggs come from the Delaware State University farm. We incubate them and watch them hatch. We will be able to play with our babies towards the end of the week. Yay!

Here are the other things we're working on:

Math: Creating numbers to 20
Science: Exploring properties of wood
Phonics: Short vowel Uu
Reading: Skip the unknown word and come back, Sequencing, Retelling a story
Writing: Writing multiple sentences with conventions

March 18th

Next week (March 18th) we will celebrate the coming of Spring with some seasonal activities. We will talk about the weather changing and read spring stories. Here are the specifics for next week:


Math: Addition and Subtraction, determining when to use each operation

Science: Continuing Dinosaurs

Phonics: Short vowel /e/, -et, -en, -eg, -ed word families

Sight Words: look, come

Reading: Story Elements, review characters and setting, introduce sequence

Writing: Using capitalization, finger spaces, and periods

Handwriting: lowercase letters on the lines correctly



We will be having an egg hunt and enjoy some "rabbit food" at the end of the month. Please check your child's magic folder for specific information coming home this week!


Have a wonderful weekend!

Week of 3-4

This week we will cover....


Math: Beginning Subtraction
Science: Dinosaurs
Social Studies: Long Ago & Today
Phonics: Letter Sound review, rhyming, syllables
Reading: Dr. Seuss author study, real and nonsense words
Writing: Writing with rhymes, conventions, extending our writing to multiple sentences
Handwriting: Lowercase letters

March Overview

Hello!

This month we will be moving into subtraction, learning the short e vowel sound, talking about dinosaurs, and tons more! The themes we will cover are:

3/4: Dr. Seuss, rhyming, nonsense words, sentence structure
3/11: St. Patrick's Day, Ireland
3/18: Spring, seasonal changes, weather, animals
3/25: Rabbits

At the end of the month, we will have a "Rabbit Food" tasting and an egg hunt to celebrate spring!
More info to come :)

Valentine's Day

Eeek! Valentine's Day snuck up on me! Thank goodness you wonderful parents are on top of things!


To answer your questions....

Yes, we will do heart themed activities for a fun, yet educational day.
Yes, we will be exchanging Valentines. There are 21 students in our classroom.
Yes, we will make a special snack.

No, we do not need any more donations. Thank you for your generosity!


A list of names can be found in the column on the right of this blog, and a copy will be sent home with your student on Monday. It is easiest if your child just signs the valentines, rather than make out a specific card for each individual student, but writing the names of all the classmates is great fine motor and spelling practice, so have at it if you wish!

Hello!

Hi Families!

Last week, we had so much fun celebrating our 100th day of school! We appreciate all the donations you have made! Because of your support we were able to:

-make 100 Froot Loops into a necklace
-exercise 100 times
-make a trail mix for snack with 100 goodies
-build a structure with 100 paper cups

Monday is the 101st Day of school! We will be celebrating with a Dalmatian theme. We will write about being a puppy, compare and contrast the book version and the movie version of 101 Dalmatians, take a walk that is 101 steps long, see how much 101 drops of water fills up our dog bowls, and make puppy chow for snack!

It is going to be busy, but SO MUCH FUN!

Pictures will be posted soon!

Week of January 14th

Hello Families!

Here's what we're up to this week...

Overall Theme: Hibernation/Winter Animals

Math: numbers to 40

Science: Forces and Motion

Social Studies: Martin Luther King Jr.

Phonics: short i word families (-it, -ig, -ip, -in, -ill)

Reading: Fact and Fiction

Writing: Writing facts