Welcome back from Spring Break! I hope it was restful and enjoyable for everyone. I caught up on my sleep in between training so even though I don't get away to a warm place I still feel like I had a restful break:). Here is a snapshot of what we learned this week. I hope that you use this snapshot as a way to encourage conversations about your child's school life. In word study, well…they explained it best below:). In writer's workshop, we are in-between studies so the children wrote on topics of choice. Honestly, this is my favorite way to write because their creativity runs wild and the stories produced are amazing! I get the great privilege of listening in on their conversations with each other and I can hear them making great suggestions to each other like "are you going to add more detail to your illustration" or " what about this for your character's problem…" They also compliment and encourage each other and several have started a different genre simply because another peer shared that type of writing. In science, again, you can read all about it below. One picture that didn't make it on was of a balloon that is filled with carbon dioxide from mixing vinegar with baking soda. Simple experiment to demonstrate using a mixture to make a gas. In math, we are continuing with measurement and then moving on to telling time to the hour and half-hour. In Reader's Workshop, we took a a literacy approach to matter and read two Dr. Seuss books that were not only enjoyable but a good look at when matter runs amok:). We used these stories to talk about problems and solutions, making connections and story elements such as characters, setting, problem, events and solution.
Mrs. Kachinka wants you to know that the Art Show is fast approaching. A flyer will go home on Monday with details but if you want to put it on your calendars it will be Thursday, April 30th from 6:00 to 7:30 at SCE.
Spring Pictures will be taken on April 1st.
Mrs. Aldin is our new room coordinator for our end-of-year celebration and the Springtacular basket. She would LOVE to have a volunteer to create our theme basket for Springtacular. If you are interested, please let her know by emailing her at jesaldin@gmail.com. She looks forward to hearing from you.
Our schedule for next week: Monday - Library Tuesday - P.E. Wednesday - Art Thursday - Music Friday - NO SCHOOL! Monday - Library
We are measuring in math. This girl is measuring C. with cubes. We are learning about measurement in math and on that day we were measuring big things.
A. is measuring the table that holds our mailboxes.
A. is pointing at the words we learned during word study. We are bracketing the root words. We are learning about /ed/. We learned that one of them says /d/. One of them says /t/ and one of them says /ed/. We are also underlining the blends. We circled the /ed/ and put a /t/ or a /d/ on top of it. We also circle our old hunk-and-chunks and /ed/ we underline instead of circling it.
This is after Reader's Workshop when you can share a book, your favorite part of a book or a connection from it. If you have something like a writing piece or a picture and you really want to share, you can. When Mrs. McNeal says, "Would you like to share?" you say "yes please" or "yes thank you" if you want to share.
We are learning about matter. Scissors are solid. Water is a liquid. Oxygen is a gas. The three states of matter are solids, liquids and gasses and today we learned how to make Jello and change matter. We changed solids into liquids by using hot water. We turned liquids into solid by adding cold temperature. Solids can turn into liquids and liquids can turn into gasses.
J. is enjoying his Jello. He is eating his science experiment. It is J. versus Jello! J. won!
This is our friend K. Here are some things we'd like you to know. We want you to know that we miss you! We think you are very creative and a really, really good friend of ours! You are very kind! We think you are really great! We care about you and we love you! We hope that you are still reading this blog! We hope that you can come back and visit us. We hope that you are making new friends there and we hope that you still remember us and won't ever forget us. We hope that you still keep your bucket fillers to remember us. We hope that you have fun at your new school. Will you send us messages too? I hope that you like your new teacher too.
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