YAY for a full week! 😃

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify the words: of, as, and use in various texts

2. Use drawings and equations to represent the numbers 11-16

3. The 5 Sense and how we use them every day

4. What their true story is about

🎉 Yay for our first full week of school in quite a while! I think we are all a little tired, but also very happy that we saw all of our friends and did all of our activities for a full week!

🦅 Meredith from School of the Wild visited Lincoln and Mann for an assembly teaching us about Falcons and the importance of taking care of the wildlife around us. She talked about what the wildlife camps have to offer, what you can see when you visit the park, and how we can help make a positive impact with nature! She even had a Kestrel Falcon with her!

🍎 Friendly reminder that we do not have school this coming Monday, March 4th due to the second round of conferences. I look forward to seeing those of you that are signed up for this day!

✨Next Friday, March 8th will be another all school celebration: Lincoln Spirit Day! This means your student can show their Lincoln pride by wearing anything Lincoln or blue.

📚 In reading we used our skill of visualization to help us sequence a story after we had read it. We read through a story, predicting what might happen next, discussing how characters feel, and why certain things are happening in the story, then once we finished the story we tried to retell it as best we could! We closed our eyes and pictured the first thing that happened, then the next, and the next, and so on until we reached the end of the story! This is something you can easily do with any of the stories you have at home!

🔢 This week in math we finished practicing how to count and write our numbers 11-20 and began looking at how we can represent them. This includes drawing pictures, completing tens frames, using tens sticks and ones cubes, and writing equations using 10 + ___ to show how we can represent these different teen numbers.

👂👃🖐👀👅 The five senses were our main focus in health this week! We learned that every day we use hearing, smelling, touching, seeing, and tasting to help us understand the world around us. The kids really enjoyed this unit and the special activities we completed.  We started the week with a smell test (different scents in small vials), followed by a sound test (unknown animal noises played on a CD), continued by discussing our fabrics unit we recently finished in science for our sense of feel, and finished the week with a whole senses experience using popcorn (we hear it pop, smell it cooking, see the bag inflate and the seed turn to pop, felt the smooth but bumpy texture and tasted the final product)! Keep the fun going at home with your child and discover how we use our senses at home by taking a nature walk or sampling different smells, tastes, sounds, touches, and visuals that you find around you at home or while out and about!

You can sing the Five Senses Song at home with your child! Use this link to hear it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iA1uLc1uEbI