April Fun!

This week we started learning about addition.  Please practice this new skill at home with your child!  You can use small toys or cereal pieces to help your child solve the addition problems.

Today we planted marigold seeds.  We will be taking care of them for a few weeks and then they will be coming home.  Thank you to everyone who donated seeds and soil for this fun activity!

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns!

This Week....

This week we read "Max Takes The Train".  We colored trains and wrote about where we would go if we could take a train ride.  We worked on the comprehension skill realism and fantasy.  Please review these terms at home when reading with your child.  We are also working on reading sentences fluently.  The decodable readers and the homework that I send home each week are good practice to help your child learn to read fluently.  We are currently working on our last set of sight words.  This week we learned "green, yellow, blue".  Please continue to practice all of the sight words that we have learned this year.

In math we are working on the measurement chapter.  We are practicing measuring classroom items using paper clips and snap cubes.  This week we also learned about weight and capacity.  We will have our measurement text next Tuesday, 4/16.   We will begin addition next week. 

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.  Have a great weekend!

Reminders:
~ We will plant seeds on Thursday, 4/18
~ Report Cards will come home Friday, 4/19

Spring Party!

We hope you enjoy the pictures from our egg hunt and party today!

Pot Of Gold!

We hope you enjoy our new podcast titled "If I Had a Pot Of Gold".  Here are some pictures of the project we worked on today!

New Skills!

This week we are learning how to read words with beginning and ending blends.  The following list of words are some examples of words with blends: flag, flip, flop, clip, clap, clam, plan, plot, plus, crab, crib, milk, silk, mask, desk, risk, skin, skip, spin, spill, stop, step.

Today in math we learned how to tell time to the hour.  Each child practiced telling time using mini clocks that I provided. They really seemed to enjoy learning about time.  They were anxious to tell time on our classroom clock! We will be having a test next Tuesday.  Your child will be expected to count mixed coins (penny, nickel, dime), tell time to the hour, and identify time of day (morning, afternoon, evening).  They must also be familiar with the calendar.  Please refer to the worksheet that came home last week for the calendar skills your child will be expected to know for the test.

100 Yellow Wolves!

I would like to congratulate my class on earning 100 yellow wolves.  Keep up the good work!  We celebrated today with a popsicle party!

Green Eggs and Ham!

In celebration of Dr. Seuss' birthday we read Green Eggs and Ham.  Our first Mystery Reader for the month of March was Mr. Sharkazy.  After the story we ate some green eggs!  Our green eggs were made from cool whip and lime sherbet.  Enjoy the pictures!

Next week in Math we will learn how to tell time to the hour.  We will also spend a lot of time reviewing money and counting mixed coins.  We will also review calendar skills and the terms-morning, afternoon and evening.  Please refer to the daily math worksheets for at home activities to help your child with the new skills we are learning in school.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns that you may have!