Spring is coming! 😃

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify the words play, an, and make in various texts

2. Find the different parts of teen numbers (10 and some ones)

3. The 5 Food Groups

4. What types of words we can use to enhance our stories

     

🍎 Thank you to all of you for meeting with myself and your child to talk about their progress! Conferences were great and I love being able to discuss what we are doing in class with you. If you ever have any questions, comments, or concerns please don't hesitate to reach out! I am always available for you- not just during conference time!

✨ This week we enjoyed a few special assemblies: a University of Iowa dance team and the Jazz Band from South East Junior High. The kiddos loved listening to the music and picking up on a few new flashy dance moves!

🙂 Next Friday, March 15th we will have an all school PAW ticket celebration of listening to Kids Bop during lunch... with the lights off! WOAH- super cool! We will also have a class PAW ticket celebration by wearing our pajamas to school! Stay tuned if we will earn one small stuffed animal as well (we are working on quite bodies in the hallway and cleaning up after ourselves)- I know we can do it!

✉ Coming home in your child's Friday Folder you will find information for Safety Village Camp, a letter from Mrs. Charney our guidance councilor about her upcoming lessons, and the March Scholastic Book orders. The Scholastic Book orders will be due Friday, March 22nd (the online class code is RCYJT).

📚 Reading this week has focused on inferring what a character is feeling based on the words we read and the images we see. We also focused on how this can help us predict what the character might do or feel next. This is a very easy task to complete at home with any sort of book you might have! You can even take it a step further and act out the feelings you see and talk about how you can cope with different feelings or help others cope with their own feelings.

🔢 In math we focused on breaking our teen numbers into two different groups. These groups typically consist of breaking into a group of ten and some more ones. We show this by writing equations, filling out two ten frames, and completing number line boxes. I encourage you to keep working on breaking apart all numbers up to 20 with your student at home. Ask them to show you two groups that can make up a number and encourage them to look beyond the group of ten and some more ones if they seem ready to do so.

😋 In science this week we worked on the My Plate food configuration and why it is important for our bodies. We talked about healthy and unhealthy foods and how everything in moderation is the way to go. We also discussed what each of the five main food groups gives us and how we need those nutrients to keep our body healthy and energized. Keep the conversation going at home by asking your child what food group certain foods belong to and having them help you shop for yummy and healthy foods at the store followed by helping you prepare the meals!

🖊 We are wrapping up our true stories unit in writing (the finale being our published books the first week of April!) and will be starting our How To unit. We have grown a lot as writers and have many skills to show off! We discussed the importance of using different words to indicate the beginning (One day..), middle (Next, Then, After that...), and end (Finally, At last, Later...) of our stories. We have also been focusing on how to form full sentences on paper! We focus on saying the sentence we want, then writing it down word by word until we reach the end!

❄🔆💧 Next week's weather is looking a bit more spring like- YAY! Please help your child be prepared for the expected weather each day so that we may have a comfy and successful time learning. Thank you and have a wonderful weekend!