Fall Break 🦃

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identifying the words 'come' and 'my' in text around them

2. How they feel about writing now that they are published authors

3. Combining numbers of objects to see how many in all

4. How wood reacts to water

5. All of the fun fall activities and surprises they have had 🍂

6. Blankets coming home... washing time! 🙂

🦃 We have had a quick two weeks and are excited for our long weekend break! I hope you all are able to relax and enjoy some wonderful time with family and friends. I am beyond thankful for all of these kiddos and the hard work they put in each and every day, as well as everything you do as a family to support them. Thank you!

🍎 Thank you all for meeting at conferences! I am always available to talk anytime as needed, just let me know. 

🎉 Next week we will be back to our regular full schedule and on Friday the 30th, the student council has decided we will do a crazy sock day! 

🙂 I would like to ask for your help that we only bring items for show and tell on Mondays and/or Fridays. We have been bringing lots and lots of great things to share but it is becoming a little time consuming. If you could help your child decide on special things to share and limit them to Mondays and/or Fridays this would really help! Thank you!

📚 Reading these past two short weeks has helped us focus on comparing and contrasting stories and their characters. We looked within each of our stories for things that were the same and different for the characters and settings, as well as across different books of the same story (for example different Three Little Pigs stories). This helped us not only find similarities and differences, but it also helped us understand different character's point of view. This helps us while reading as well as in our own lives when we are trying to understand what someone around us might be thinking and feeling.

🖊 Next week we will start a new writing unit called Show and Tell. This unit consists of showing the students a scenario, then providing them with time to draw it, label their drawing, and work on a story to explain the scenario. I am very excited for this unit as it takes away the stress of thinking of something to write about and allows the student to focus on the words. This can easily be done at home by showing your child a picture (something silly or interesting to them) and allowing them to explain the story to you. They can then write out what they think is causing the picture to be the way it is. This week we focused on how much we have grown and even gave a quote about our writing just like real authors do for reporters!

✅ We have expanded our study of greater than, less than, or equal to by combining the groups. Now when we count objects in a group and compare them to another group we can put them all together to see how many in all! Wow! We are adding! We have been able to complete number sentences by saying ___ and ___ make/is ___. Next week we will be placing the addition symbol and equal sign into our number sentences. This will be a big step in our mathematical process!

🌳💧 We had a lot of fun exploring how wood reacts with water. We used two different types of wood for these experiments and compared their reactions. One type of wood was Particle Board and the other was Red Cedar. We started our investigation by discussing what we thought would happen to the wood and water, then we practiced using a dropper. We first tested just one drop of water on each side of the two types of wood. Then we compared how the two types of wood reacted when placed in a tub of water. We had a lot of fun experimenting with wood and water!