An Amazing 100th Day of School

Students enjoyed celebrating the 100th day of school last Friday.

Hello, here is the update for the week:

Paper Towel Rolls
We need some empty cardboard paper towel roles and toilet paper roles for an upcoming art project.  Please bring in any you have this week.

Early Release This Wednesday, February 27
This Wednesday students will be dismissed at 12:52 PM.

Extra Clothing
Repeated from last week: If you have any clothing that your children have grown out of, we welcome it here.  The office is looking for clothing as well as the young fives classroom.  Please send it in to me and I will distribute where it can be best used.

Curriculum Overview

Science -  We are in the middle of a project-based-learning unit on living things.   The questions driving our learning are:  What do plants and animals need to survive? AND What do I need to survive? This week we will finish diagramming a plant and begin to learn about animals, what they need to survive, how their needs are both similar and different to the needs of plants.  Hopefully our classroom pets will arrive this week and we will begin taking care of them.

Reading -  We are reading non-fiction books about plants and animals.  Ask your students about the parts of a plant and the function (or job) each part does.

Writing - We will continue our non-fiction writing.  We will diagram plants and write about some of the experiments we have set up in the classroom.

Math - In our PBL unit we will be measuring some of the plants we have growing.  This week we will study different ways to break apart the number ten (i.e. 5+5=10, 7+3=10, 9+1=10).  We will also compare numbers using 'greater than' and 'less than'.

Word Study - Students are learning to count the syllables in words.