Oh the excitement! 🐧

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify the words 'here' and 'now'

2. Cause and Effect

3. What the subtraction sign looks like

4. To take away some items from a group

5. How to make particle board

6. What evaporate means

Our particle board creations will come home next week!

🎉Next Friday, December 21st is "Ugly Sweater Day" per student council all school spirit day! We hope this brings a little extra cheer and excitement to our before break celebrations. 😊

📚 Reading this week focused on cause and effect. This is a pretty tricky concept that the kids will continue to work on throughout their grade school experiences. We worked to identify cause and effect of feelings, weather, and play actions. You can help your child develop a sense of cause and effect using things around you every day!

🔢 Math moved to look at subtraction! We worked to create two groups out of one number and use the number sentence: ___ take away ___ is ___. This is very similar to our addition sentences which has helped them make the connected of addition and subtraction being opposites. We often practice saying our math problem one way and then the other! Today we even added in the subtraction sign. This was very exciting for the students! You can practice subtraction at home by setting out a group of objects, asking your child how many there are in all, then asking them to take some away and count how many are left! If you wanted to stretch them further you could have them write down the equation that matches their objects!

🌳Science was filled with fun activities this week involving sawdust, shavings, water, and paste! We started the week by looking closely at the components of particle board: sawdust and shavings. This led us to an investigation of comparing the two materials and mixing them together to see how they react. We then took it a step further and added water! We observed this new mixture and then stirred it up to see if it would change. We then worked to strain the water from the wood pieces and discussed how they would dry... evaporation! We also collected a few cups of water (uncovered and covered) to see how long it would take for them to evaporate. Lastly, we mixed our dry sawdust and shavings with a homemade paste (corn starch and water) and shaped it into our very own pieces of particle board! Sadly these pieces are still drying, so they will come home next week. 🙂