What is an Insect?

This week, we learned about insects! Here are some of the important things we talked about...

Our centers this week included learning about what makes an insect, reading and writing power words, spelling words with silent e endings, working on words with blends, and more. 

We continued working on writing and solving subtractions problems in Math. Please continue working with your child on subtracting...this is very tricky for us!

In Reading, we listened to and discussed a book about the Moon.  We used the table of contents to preview the book and practiced wondering about the topic. We looked and diagrams and labels to help us build knowledge and purpose. Our vocabulary words this week included overhead, visible, face, and rough.

We are continuing to work during Writing about our opinions on various topics and trying to be convincing with our reasons.  

We worked on r blends this week during Phonics including cr, br, dr, fr, gr, pr, and tr. We practiced reading and building words with blends and silent e words. We learned the heart words "one" and "once". 

In Science, we started talking about the seasons and the weather patterns we notice during each. 

Looking ahead...

Professional Development- No school 4/8

Kids Heart Challenge Performance 4/11 at 1:30pm (Please come watch us!)

Have a great weekend!

Jena

Take Me Out to the Ballgame!

We got ready for Opening Day and the Cardinals this week! Here are some of the important things we learned... 

Our centers included finding and writing baseball words, catching and writing digraphs, finding words with blends. played roll a sight word, read books on RAZkids, worked in our reading groups, and more! 

In Phonics, we worked on the sm, sn, sp, sk, st, and sw blends. We learned two new power words, "now" and "how", and reviewed the word "down", 

Our new Reading unit has us looking closer at text features and how we use them when reading nonfiction books. We used the table of contents to preview our books, made text to self connections, and used the pictures to help us tell the story.  We also worked on asking ourselves "does that make sense?" when reading independently.  Our vocabulary words this week included: warn, signal, haul, and mighty.

In Writing, we listened and discussed various opinion writings. We worked on writing opinion pieces using "I think" as our sentence starter. We wrote opinion letters and stories.

We started working on subtracting numbers within 5 during Math. Please continue subtracting with your child at home. 

We started our new Science unit this week. In this unit, we will investigate the weather outside. We made observations about the weather and collected data to analyze weather patterns. We started graphing our data to analyze patterns. We will use weather observations and forecasting to connect daily patterns to weather patterns throughout the rest of the year. We will also revisit the seasons and how the weather changes throughout the year. In the coming weeks, we will examine extreme weather events that can happen during the year, and explain how people can prepare for weather events.  

We learned so much from Mr. Reboulet! Thanks for coming to speak to us and teach us about your very important job during Career Week! 

Looking ahead...

Passport Night 4/1 at 5:30pm

Professional Development- No school 4/8

Kids Heart Challenge Performance 4/11 at 1:30pm (Please come watch us!)

Have a great weekend!

Jena