Important Dates and Reminders:
4/18: PAC field trip
4/19: Family Night 5:30-7:00pm
4/20: Dress in green and blue for Earth day
4/26: Movie Star Day
**On May 17, we will be taking a field trip to Building for Kids. Since we will be taking chaperones I wanted to get this date out early! More info will be coming soon!
Math: We are just beginning our LAST math unit of the year...holy cow!! This unit is called Consolidation of Concepts and will focus on all of the important skills students need to attain in Kindergarten in order to have a solid grasp of mathematical concepts to build on in 1st grade. All of these topics are repetitive and you might find me to a be a broken record when keeping you in the loop! Please know that this is by design...our curriculum Math Expressions, is a spiral curriculum, meaning concepts are taught over and over across the year in various ways, taking students' development into consideration and giving them ample opportunity to master and deeply understand concepts!
Reading: This week we will continue to focus on cross checking what we read by asking: "what sounds right, looks right and makes sense." We will learn that readers are flexible and try out many different strategies when trying to answer these questions. We will also learn about the importance and reasons for rereading. The big reasons we want students to reread is to make sure they are understanding what is read and to make sure their reading sounds smooth and fluent (not like a robot :)). In the classroom we are now working on "scooping up" words in sentences and phrases rather than reading word by word. Students may likely still read in a choppy way when decoding new words, but we can encourage them to go back and make it sound smooth.
Writing: Our persuasive writing unit will turn a corner this week! We will all rally around a common cause "Keeping the Earth Clean" and will use all we have learned as persuasive writers so far to create books, songs, letters and signs to persuade others to do their part to keep our planet clean. This is the perfect time to do this work as Earth Day is approaching!
Science: This week we will study the sun and the impact it can have on temperature as well as the way it provides light. We will learn about a city in Norway that is situated in a way where it can receive no light and will hypothesize and experiment with ways we could create light. We are in need of flashlights for this experiment! If you can lend us some please send them to school by Tuesday!!!
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