Happy Spring Break!

A look at our learning...

Fundations: we continued to work on blending and reading 3 sound words.  We changed the initial, middle or ending sounds to create new words. (example: bed, led, leg, etc.) We also blended nonsense words, such as bez, for decoding mastery.  When your child is writing at home and they ask you how to spell a word, please encourage them to "tap it out and write the sounds they hear."

Shared Reading: we read the books What Animals Eat and Do you play? to help us learn our word wall words to & do.

When we return from Spring Break our new word wall words will be:

are

for

Math: this week we played a match game with 3D shapes, explored caculators, took a survey about the types of pets we have at home and used pan balances.  Ask your child what they liked about math this week. 

Writing Workshop: on Thursday we took our informational writing assessment.  Over the past couple of months they have loved learning about this type of writing and have become experts on penguins and elephants.  They did a great job!  When we return from spring break we will begin our final unit of writing, opinion writing.  

Counselor: Mrs. Roof read the story Chester and the Big Bad Bully.  The main character is Chester from The Kissing Hand.  The kids talked about what to do when someone is bugging you and bullying you.  We also talked about the difference between bugging and bullying.  Ask your child to tell you how bullying is different than bugging or just being mean.  You can also ask your child why Mrs. Roof had on ladybug slippers and a ladybug and Stinky the Skunk puppet!  Mrs. Roof is so fun and entertaining! 

March Reading Logs: you can turn in March reading logs when we return from Spring Break.  The April reading logs are in their take home folders today, we are not sending home Friday Folders this week due to break.  March is the last month for the Pizza Hut Reading Program.  It only runs October-March.  However, the BEU expectation is that children are reading/being read to at least 4 times a week for 20 minutes so we will continue that portion through April and May.  

Penny Drive: thanks again for the generous donations to our penny drive!  Even Dr. Majerus and Mr. Woods saved up pennies for us!

Happy Spring Break!! See you in April!