RAINFORESTS WEEK 1
Hello!
I am super excited to begin a longer theme- Rainforests!
Rainforests are important areas for the planet, producing about 20% of the world's oxygen and supporting most of the world's species. Rainforests also provide products to humans like chocolate, bananas, coconuts, rubber and many medicines...and they are BEAUTIFUL!
Some things to remember:
- HERE is the link to our EOY important K events
- Please send in the field trip permisson/$ (either in to school or online) ASAP and include the extra $ if you were chosen to be a chaperone.- A HUGE thank you to all of you who volunteered to put your name in the hat!
- Monday is Shaker Lane Spirit Day- PJ DAY and the children can bring a small stuffy
- Wednesday is an early release day
- Room 103 could really use plastic spoons for snack time!
This week the children will:
Language Arts-
- practice the new trick words: with, look
- continue reading and spelling words with digraphs
- Read "rainforest" sentences that practice trick words and digraphs (and short vowels)
- contribute to a discussion about the book The Great Kapok Tree
- label parts of the rainforest
- write an opinion on what they would do if they were the boy in the story
- practice syllable sorting
- practice ABC order
- listening to a short reading and then answering comprehension questions about what they heard
- begin the next unit in Writing- persuasive writing
Math-
- begin the next unit on teen numbers
- compose/decompose numbers 10-20
- practice skip counting by 10
- practice adding to 10
- use a 0-20 number line
- practice counting strategies
- review shapes
SEL-
We are continuing to learn about showing respect and talking to each other in a respectful way. There has been a lot of role playing! Millie has had some issues at Puppet School with the same challenges (go figure!) and she will ask for some assistance on the subject. We will also participate in the Second Step lesson about name calling. HERE is the link to our SEL lesson newsletter from Mrs. Kenney.
Science-
The children will learn about the animals that live in the rainforest and we will make a 3D collaborative project (our own Kapok tree)- I will take lots of pictures for you to see!
Social Studies-
The children will be learning about the different communities and people who live in the rainforest (specifically the Amazon) and we will be looking at maps to see where the rainforests are located in relation to Littleton. The children will also learn about the resources that come from the Amazon rainforest.
Here are some pictures from last week:
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| working on a superhero puzzle |
making homes for superheroes!
making superhero puppets and practicing fine motor skills
choice time play:)
MATH- shape collages! Students worked as teams to search for, cut out and glue shapes from magazines onto a collage to represent a given shape
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| A huge thank you to Nicole Monk for being our Mystery Reader! |
We had a community meeting about taking responsibility!
We were introduced to the Mother's Day community project.
