SNOW ❄

Ask Your Child About...

1. To identify and spell the word 'can' in text around you

2. Scrambled up sentences!

3. Sorting and comparing groups of objects

4. Balloon Rocket!

5. Kinder Tales field trip!

   
What a fantastic week! Conferences are off to a great start and we had our very first field trip! 😊

❄ It is feeling like fall and maybe even winter! We all noticed the change in weather this week as it was much chillier and windier at recess! We also had snow! Thank you for sending your child in the proper gear! Feel free to show them the handy hat and glove trick. 🙂 This consists of placing your mittens inside your hat and then inside your coat sleeve. This prevents us from losing them or mixing them up with other classmates' things! Another helpful tool is to write your child's name on each and every piece of weather clothing. Many of our things are similar and hard to tell apart. We also get so excited about the snow that we tend to misplace things. Having your child's name on everything will ensure it gets back to them quickly. Thank you!
❄ For reference, students are only allowed to play in the snow if they have snow boots and pants along with their winter coat, hat, and gloves. Otherwise they will be confined to the blacktop.

🎉 On Wednesdays the Student Council will bring around the school store on a cart. This is a fun way to raise money for Lincoln student council. The store consists of pencils, gel pens, erasers, highlighters, mini notebooks, and other small school supply items. These items vary in price from a quarter to one dollar. This is completely optional and only available on Wednesday mornings.

🍎 Next Friday the 16th, there will be no school due to conferences.

📚 In reading we focused on summarizing our stories! We discovered how to find the important details and and rephrase the story so it short but showing the overall idea. The students are getting really good at this! 👍 We also focused on the word 'can'. This is a word we have been seeing a lot in our reading so we are excited to be able to spell and remember it for our own stories!

🖊 We are currently between writing units which allows us some time to practice penmanship and sentence structure. We have been working with scrambled sentences to help us identify the beginning, middle, and end of a sentence. We then work to rewrite it in our very best handwriting. You can do this with your child at home by creating short simple sentences for them to work through. Simply write out the sentence, cut it apart, and then help your child read the words and put them in the correct order. They can then rewrite the sentence on a new sheet and even add their own illustrations!

🔢 In math we have been doing a little review of sorting and comparing groups of objects. This is something your child has most likely seen before this year and is being reviewed to ensure they have a solid foundation. We look at images and work with objects to create different types of groups and then compare how many. For example, we might look at a picture of some animals outside. We would then classify our animals into two different groups such as animals with wings and animals not with wings. We then count the number of animals in each group and write the number down. Then we identify the group that has the greater, least, or equal amount. This is easy to do at home or while you are out and about!

🎈 We continued our study of pushes and pulls in science by experimenting with balloon rockets! This was a very fun and easy activity that you could also set up at home! This experiment helped us see how a balloon can move and how air can be a force. We talked about how we can change the way the balloon moves by adding more air, taking away air, or blocking the path with different objects. Next week we will return to our study of wood!