Hello!
I am super excited for our next theme to begin on Monday-
We will be learning about BEARS! The students will be doing a lot of comparing the different kinds of bears and we will read fiction and non fiction books about bears. We will compare their height/weight, where they live and physical characteristics as well as habits. In addition to learning about bears, the children will be...
Language Arts:
- learning to write uppercase letters
- tapping and blending CVC words
- using magnets to make words
- practicing ABC order
- writing a fictitious sentence about a bear
- discussing fictitious characters from a story and why they can't be real
- sequencing a bear story
- learning the new trick word: my
Math:
- acting out and solving both addition and subtraction problems and telling me why they used addition/subtraction
- using a real size bear's paw print to measure items in the classroom
- comparing the height of 3 different bears
- sequencing numbers 0-20
- practicing number writing
Imagatorium!
- participating in the first of 3 STEAM lessons
- By the end of the 3 lessons, we will be using 3 different materials. We will build a "house" for the 3 little pigs that will uphold the "wolf's big huff and puff"! We will be using the wind tunnel as the wolf:)
Second Step:
- beginning unit 4- lesson 19: problem solving
Science Center:
continuing to learn about the 5 senses as well as bears
Some important things to note:
- The Scholastic Book order will be due on MONDAY Jan. 22. I will put the order in after school.
- Report cards will be available Monday Jan. 29th
- Thursday 2/1 is a Shaker Lane spirit day- BOOK DAY (children are encouraged to bring their favorite book to school to show at our morning meeting)
- Shakey's Storytime is a school virtual event and it will be on 2/1. I will be reading at 6:30!
- The 100th day of school is scheduled to be on Feb. 6th and there will be more information about this on the next blog post.
- Shaker Lane will be participating in Global Play Day on Feb. 7th. I will share more information regarding this day next week but just wanted to let you know that room 103 will indeed be PLAYING on that day:)
- Our Valentine's Day class list is at the top of the blog for anyone who likes to get things done early:). Each child brings in a card for each classmate. I encourage your child to at least sign his/her name on the cards they are giving and it might be too much for them to do at once. Please note that we are NOT allowed to attach any candy to the Valentine. Please have Valentine's in by 8:55 am on 2/14.
Here are some pictures from last week!
Making a snowflake border for our bulletin board:
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| A huge thank you to Mr. Brochu for being our Mystery Reader! |
Learning about our 5 senses
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| Our community meeting was about the R in HEART! HERE is the link for the book we heard |
This week we learned a little about evergreen trees and we used evergreens to paint "snow" on an "evergreen" for our bulletin board.
We used thermometers to measure and compare the temperature of snow and hot water. Hopefully the recording sheets made it home for you to see the results!
