We had a very productive week last week. We have wrapped up our unit on multiplication and division. We've jumped right into narrative writing and have begun to explore how to use quotation marks in our story to let our audience know when a character is talking. We also continue to work on improving our basketball skills. Finally, we will have library tomorrow (Tuesday). Have a great week!
This marks the end of all our short weeks. We are looking forward to getting back to our regularly scheduled program! This past week/week and a half in language we got back into UFLI and are moving along quite well. The students are doing a great job applying all the phonemic awareness we have reviewed and learned so far this year to their daily writing. In math, our focus was on division and really trying to understand what exactly it means to divide and what information we get from dividing in addition to various ways we can solve equations. We looked at oral health this past week as well and things we can do to ensure strong teeth and gums.
Nothing worthy to note for this week. Should be a regular week with some beautiful weather! April Showers bring...more snow it would appear! Pretty crazy week with the snow the last two days but it has been great for students to be able to build outside. I have seen some pretty big snow people in the school yard! Another short week kicked off with a presentation called "Be an All-Star". Tons of fun and lots of cool basketball tricks and balancing acts. We focused a lot on division this week and are working to understand what it means and when we might use it. We have started back with our UFLI lessons and exploring natural forces in science.
Reminder that Monday is a PD Day and the solar eclipse. As well we have library on Tuesday so please send in any books from home. Enjoy your weekend! Welcome back! I hope everyone had a restful and fun March Break. We have jumped right back into the thick of things and have had a fun week.
In our March Madness of books we are down to the final 4 books. Some disappointment when we discovered that 3 of our 4 top picks didn't advance but we have had some incredible conversations about these picture books. I encourage you to ask your child about the "Tree and the River". Considering it is a book with no words, we had a 45 minute conversation with some incredible connections, insight and ideas. In math we have begun to work on multiplication and division. Currently we are looking at what multiplication means and the various ways it can be represented. We will do the same with division and then look at problem solving with these two operations. In physical education we are starting to develop our basketball skills. In science we are beginning to wrap up our study of forces looking this week at how forces affect items and changes in distance, speed and direction. Turns out that we have library next week so please send in library books to return them on Tuesday. It is also Holy week next week and we will be doing a lot of religion centered around all the events from Palm Sunday up to Easter. |