April 7-11 Rainforests!

 

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! NOTE: $ is due on Monday 4/7!
• Thank you so much for sending in the Clorox wipes!

This week the children will:

Language Arts-

• practice the new trick word:  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 arc in Wit and Wisdom and continue to learn about the continents 

Math-

• 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 a SEL lesson newsletter with tips for parents and some resources.

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. We will continue to learn about the 7 continents as well.

Here are some pictures from last week:

Superhero Day!

playing a Superhero math game (practicing adding)

DAILY 5

looking for digraphs, reading an Atlas with world maps, searching for sight words in Superhero books and painting sight words

IMAGATORIUM!

Making houses for superheroes during choice time!

March 31-April 4th

 

Hello!

Because we did not get to do lots of the Superhero activities this past week, we will continue our theme for next week. I would love to end our theme with a "Superhero Day" and the students are invited to dress like a Superhero on Friday! We are really close to filling the heart jar (didn't quite get there last week...) so be on the lookout for info about a celebration!🙌

Some things to remember:

• HERE is the link to our EOY important K events
• Please send in the field trip permission slips/$ (either 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! 
• HERE is the ZOO FIELD TRIP GOOGLE FORM to fill out for ME (different from permission)
  
• Friday is an early release day
• Friday is "Superhero Day" in room 103
• Room 103 could really use some Clorox wipes!
• We are still in need of lots of paper towel tubes!
• The PTA is looking for help to run the very popular (and super fun!) SPRINGFEST event on May 16th. Please consider donating some time to help this event run smoothly- it is important to have plenty of adults running the games, etc. I will be there for sure!

Some of the students have been having difficulty with following directions right away and need to be redirected too much, which is frustrating for the others who are waiting patiently for the lesson, etc. I encourage you to practice listening to directions and following those directions right away with your child. If you give your child a direction, have them repeat it and do it right away without having to tell them again. This video is a short game you can play with your child. A student should not have to wait to be called out individually to follow a direction...We have more fun when lessons go smoothly!

 

This week the children will:

Language Arts-

• practice the new trick word:  look
• continue reading and spelling words with digraphs
  
• write an opinion on Antarctica and Asia
• practice syllable sorting
• practice ABC order
• listening to a short reading and then answering comprehension questions about what they heard

In 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.

Social Studies-

Students will learn about different community members - our own superheroes! They are also learning about how to read a map, the people and natural features of Africa and Antarctica.

Science- I am still hoping to do a "super strength" science experiment with the students but we do not have enough paper towel tubes yet. If I do not get enough by Wednesday, I will send home the activity for students to do at home if they want. If they do, please send in a picture - I would LOVE to see it!😀

Here are some pictures from our week together:

Making pictures from shapes

Play Day!

Community Meeting

We talked about Shaker Lane's Reading Challenge and met Gizmo the SL therapy dog!

THANK YOU to Landon's grandmother who 
was our Mystery Reader this week! We loved
having her:)

making posters of 2D and 3D "real" objects

Superhero Fun!

 

the birthday girl and friend doing a math center:)

THANK you to Anthony's family 
for the new playdough!

Using whisper phones during reading groups

making 10!