Week 29

Hello Parents!

It was so great to be back and hear all about the students’ Spring Breaks. It sounds like they all enjoyed their week off.

We had a great first week back. On Friday, we plated in the Roberts garden. We plated leafy greens (arugula and watercress) and lettuce. Over the next 40 days, we will periodically check on our class and record our observations.

Reminders:

·         Our library day is Tuesday, however, STAAR testing will begin next week, and students will be testing in the library. I will try to schedule another day/time for the students to get new books. Please have them bring their books on Tuesday, and hopefully, we will be able to go to library later in the week.

·         Please send your child’s book bag with them to school every day.

·         The Kindergarten Musical Revue will be on Thursday, April 9 at 6:30 pm. There will be a note with more specific information in the Tuesday folder this week.
*Friday April 3(Next Friday) is the Spring Holiday. There will not be school on that day.

English Language Arts and Reading:

·         We will begin learning about nouns and that they are people, places, and things. Students will identify nouns and sort nouns and words that are not nouns.

·         We will also begin discussing singular and plural nouns and sorting nouns that are singular and plural.

·         Students have selected their topics for their All About Books. They will begin writing their own by deciding on four chapters, writing a table of contents, and writing and illustrating each page. Ask them what they chose as their topics!

Math:

·         We will review money and counting money. The students love exploring with coins and noticing all of the differences.  

·         We will continue discussing time and using counts as measures of time.

·         We will also review halves (as parts of a whole or parts of a group). The students have loved this introduction to fractions.

Science/Social Studies/IB:

·         The students have really enjoyed our new IB Unit “Sharing the Planet” so far.

·         Some key words we will be discussing are: choice, impact, and planet.

·         This week, we will begin discussing how littering and pollution can harm the planet.

·         The students will sort different activities and whether or not they are helpful or hurtful to the earth.

·         We will begin discussing reducing, reusing, and recycling. Students will create books about reducing, reusing, and recycling.

·         We will continue discussing plants and gardening as we make observations about our seeds that were planted in the Roberts garden.

I am looking forward to a great week! Please let me know if you need anything!

Emily Hudiburg