Closing February

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify and write: it, he, in, no, she, all

2. Identify, sound, and write: Hh, Kk, Ee

3. Create teen numbers using different groups of numbers

4. Identify patterns within one hundred

5. Maps!

Our University practicum, Ms. Elliot, reading to the class.

🔆 I hope you all are enjoying the change of weather! The kids have loved the warmer and sometimes sunny days for recess! We are very excited for Spring to start showing its signs to us.

🙂 Thank you to the guardians who have already met with me for conferences! I am glad we have this time to catch up and discuss all the growth your child is making through the year. I look forward to meeting with everyone else on Monday! If you even have questions or comments, please do not hesitate to reach out. Conferences is a wonderful time to discuss with each other, but it is not the only time I am available- just let me know, I am here for your child and you.

🍎If you would like to donate a snack option to our class, we would love to have them! We are nearing the end of our current snack options within the next week or so. Thank you so much for your continued support in providing our friends with healthy and tasty choices!

🏡 Thank you for your Ronald McDonald tab donations! Our classroom house collection is slowly rising... let's fill it to the roof! We get very excited to add more tabs and look forward to continuing to do so through the end of the year.

📚 In reading this week we focused on drawing conclusions. We were able to see how we can take what a character is feeling, saying, or doing to help us gather information about what is to come. We were also able to connect this work to our daily lives in school and our community. We held a few community circles to talk about when and how we can use these skills to better understand our peers and express ourselves. 

🔢 Math has brought us through teen numbers and into greater place value understanding. We will continue to look at teen numbers and their relation to single digits and beyond. We have focused on number sets from 0 to 50 as well as the decade numbers (10, 20, 30, 40... to 100). We are finding patterns within our 100 chart that help us see the relationship between numbers and how we can work through them in efficient ways. You can help your child by finding patterns and connections among numbers, counting by different groups (ones, tens, fives) and by identifying numbers in the world around them. You can also prompt your child with what is one more? ten more? one less? ten less? and so forth. 

🌎 Social studies has brought us to maps and understanding where we are in the world. We have worked from small to big and big to small! We know what city, state, country, and world we live in. We have created maps to help show how our surrounding gets bigger from where we are. We have also created maps to show different rooms or ways around a town. You can encourage these skills by creating a map of your own neighborhood! Walk the block and draw landmarks you see and show which direction you need to go. You can also get creative to draw a treasure map leading to a specific spot or item in your house or neighborhood.