Ask Your Child About...
1. Identify and spell the words look and out in various texts
2. Explain the structure of a story (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)
3. Describe the attributes of a 2D or 3D shape and create it
4. Recognize shapes in everyday life (2D and 3D)
5. Our worm and isopods!
🎭 The kids had a great time at Hancher on Wednesday. Above you can see a picture of the students discovering they belong to the Gruff Forest - the people of the East, and a picture of our two gift deliverers for the young king.
🎶 Huge shout out to all of you amazing parents for helping your student get to the Fine Arts night in time and being there to show your support for our wonderful arts teachers! The performance was wonderful and I know the kids were glad to have you there. Thank you!
📗 Your student should have brought their Friday folder home with them yesterday along with their art portfolio. In the Friday folder you would have seen a writing response we completed in connection to the Young King play, an envelope for school picture order (this is a picture of the entire student and staff this year that we will take next Tuesday morning), and several Scholastic book orders. The Scholastic orders will be due Friday, May 17th to ensure they arrive before the end of the school year. Please take this opportunity to order some great new books for your child to read over summer break. There are a lot of read together picture books to have discussion about along with tons of wonderful early chapter books and leveled readers to keep them moving ahead in their reading. Books can be ordered online or through the flyer using cash or check. I will take care of the rest!
📚 Reading this week focused on story structure. We talked a lot about how we can tell if something is important enough to retell or not. We discovered that big events and people were connected throughout the entire story, whereas small events and characters were only read about on a single page or two. Continue story structure study at home by reading books together and then asking your child to retell the story using only the major events. You could also write up a summary or act it out!
🔢 We completed our review and expand topic of shapes this week. The students love to identify shapes in the world around them (especially if something is made up of more than one shape)! Help encourage your child to explore shapes by identifying and imagining how you can manipulate them to become something else in the world around you. We also worked on creating these shapes a bit, and the students loved this extra challenge! If your student wants to draw more shapes, look up simple directions and help them practice. Many have even started writing how-to books about dhape drawing!
🐛 This week also marked the end of our life science unit. Last week we focused on red worms and earth worms followed this week by pill bugs and sow bugs. We had a lot of fun with these two sets of animals as we were able to take them out to observe and play with them! You would be surprised by how many friends started rather nervous about these animals and ended the unit feeling confident in holding them! We discussed many things through out our life science unit, ending with an understanding of what all living things need to survive as well as how various living things interact with each other. Help your child overcome fears or misunderstanding and continue to grow in their knowledge of living things by exploring bugs and other such animals in your own backyard! If you've never had a bug race... wow! You are missing out. 😉
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