Week 33 April 20-April 24

Happy Sunday families! I hope you got to enjoy some sunshine this weekend! Ellie went for her first family bike ride with us this weekend and she couldn't stop squealing with delight! 

Please text or email me a picture of your child's drawing for our class tshirt by tomorrow evening. 

Don't forget to sign up to read with Mrs. Moore this week! HERE is the link. 

If you haven't gotten a chance to get caught up with Dragon Masters, we will continue and finish book 3 next week!  This is a book we were reading aloud in class for fun. CLICK HERE to listen to the chapters we have read so far. 

Scroll down to see some pictures you shared from this week!

Ready for her bike ride! 

Happy 6th Birthday Audrey!

Here is a look at next week:

Spalding:This week we will continue to review phonograms and learn 4 new spelling words. Our words this week will be: six, boy, book, by.

Sight Words:This week we will review list 10 all week. Thank you for practicing with your child during reading time at home, we have seen great progress!

Literature: Our story this week will be “The Princess and the Pea." We will explore the original version and read another silly version. Our poem this week is "She Sells Seashells by the Seashore."

Math:
We are working on numbers to 100.  We are first going to look at numbers by groups of ten. Ten groups of ten equals 100.  We will then practice writing numbers to 100 and counting by 5s and 2s.

Science: This week we will explore the rainforest habitat. Students will learn that the rainforest has 4 layers. We will also learn more about the three-toed sloth. 

Week 32 April 14- April 17

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend! Ellie spent lots of time playing outside and being cute. : ) Scroll down to see some pictures of our class friends from this past week! 

                                       

Here's what you will be up to this week at home, as always if you have any questions feel free to let me know :)

Spalding:This week we will continue to review phonograms and spelling words. Our words this week will be: you, will, we, an, my, up, last, not. 

Sight Words:This week we will review lists 5-8. Thank you for practicing with your child during reading time at home, we have seen great progress!

Literature: Our story this week will be “Jack and the BeanStalk.” We will explore the original version and read another silly version. We will use a picture from the story to practice labeling and identify beginning sounds of the characters in the story.

Math:We will work on the order of events and what it means for something to come first.  We will place sequences in order.  We will also learn to arrangement items by size.

History: This week students will be learning about the continent of South America. We will learn more about the famous ruins; Machu Picchu.

April 6-April 9

Happy Sunday! Thank you for all your hard work this past week. I enjoy getting updates and pictures as the days go on. Next week you will find all of our class work on our Google Classroom. Please make sure you log on and submit week 1 and 2 packets by Thursday. Here is a look at what students will be learning next week. 

Spalding: We will continue review our phonograms and spellings words. Spelling words are still review but in the coming weeks we will begin to add new words. 

Sight Words: This week we will review word lists 1-4. A good way to practice is to make flashcards to ensure your child is not just memorizing the list order. 

Literature:This week we will explore a Japanese folktale about courage, Momotaro: Peach Boy. We also talk about the qualities of a hero then write about a hero of our own. 

Math: This week students will be introduced to numbers up to 40. Students will observe place value and practicing writing and identifying numbers. 

Science: This week students will be introduced to a famous woman in science named Jane Goodall. She spent much of her life studying chimps in Africa so we will explore them as well! If you’re feeling up to it, students will make their own binoculars and go outside to explore and study the nature around us.

March 30-April 3

Happy Sunday! Mrs. Moore and I talked to most of you this week and it sounds like remote learning is going well minus a couple kinks.  

Next week will remain much the same as this week as we work hard to get our Google classroom set up starting the week of April 6th. You will receive a learning packet either digitally or pick it up from school on Monday. These packets are designed so that you are doing a maximum of 1 hour of school work each day. I understand that many parents are either working from home or working out of the home still so do the best you can. 

Thank you for being flexible and patient as we find the best way to serve your kiddos! 

We are having 2 optional Zooms next week! Monday and Thursday at 8:30am. Please check your emails for more details and links for these.

 Thank you for sharing all the pictures and videos from home this week! It added sweetness to my days! Scroll down to see a few!

Also adding sweetness to my life. :)

Happy 6th Birthday Benjamin!

Spalding: We will continue to review all phonograms while adding the remainder of our learned phonograms to homework. Our spelling words this week will be: street, say, hand, come, ring, live (“You live in a house."), live ("The TV show is live."), hill, late let. 

Sight Words: This week we will review list 7.

Literature: This week we will explore A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh. We will learn about A.A. Milne’s as an author and his inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh. We will explore three different stories ,"We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh, and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin,” and "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place,” and "In Which a House is Built in Pooh Corner for Eeyore."  We will speak to the virtues represented, explore Pooh’s character traits, and find examples of friendship in the story. Our poem is Peter Piper.

Math: This week students will be reviewing both addition and subtraction together.  We will explore fact families which include addition and subtraction equations.  Students will also be introduced to simple story problems.

History/Geography: This week we will be exploring the continent of Africa. Students will learn that the African Savanna is a unique habitat and that many animals live there. They will learn that Nigeria is a country in Africa that has a fun tradition.