It's April? WHAT??? It's catch up time.

We have been such busy little "Whos"! Here are some bullet points on some amazing March moments.

• We learned all about St. Patrick and St. Joseph.  On St. Patrick's Day, we all backed some delish Irish Soda Bread and even made our own butter. 
  
   
  • We learned about Georges Seurat and Pointillism. They looked at his art near and far to see how his style of using "dots" actually created complete pictures.
    
    
    
    
    
    • LM was our scientist of the week.  He tested acids and bases in order to to see which combination created the best volcanic "erruption".
  
  
   
• We read Mouse Paint and learned about primary and secondary colors.  From that point we created color mixing bags.  They predicted what color they would get based on the color mixing chart on the board. 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  •  For 2 weeks, we talked about all kinds of weather and weather words. One week, they even experiences 3/4 seasons! LOL.  They even wrote these amazing weather books without assistance.  I have not sent them home yet as I am showing them off! Look for them soon.
    

    

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    Wind with bubbles

    

    rain and water cycle

    
    

    

    the Sun's role in our weather

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

  •  In Math we worked a lot with whole and part and sorting.  You can do this at home with a simple pair of dice or even just one die and a segmented plate.  Roll the die or dice and put one group in one part, the other die in the other part then put together in the whole section.  It's best to use legos, or rocks or some other small countable objects.
  
  
  

  

  Using simple links to create patterns and to sort.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  • We created new word and letter centers out of simple everyday things from my home! K-cups are now alphabet and number cups that students can put in order. Easter eggs have word families on them that they have to find and rhyme.  I also took 10 and put numbers on 1 half and dots on the other.  The students need to match! Get them while they are so cheap!
    
    
  
  
  
  

  

  Practicing word families

  
  

  
  

  • In Religion we specialized in Lent and Easter.  We did talk about all the events that led up to Jesus dying and rising again.  One day there was sadness in the classroom.  We talked about how it was ok to be sad because it was a sad event for Jesus and his family and friends.  We then focused on how it would become joyful and happy when Jesus rises.  Our next focus is really going to be on prayer.  They will be learning an echo version of the Our Father, so you may start to hear it!
  
  
  • We had 2 friends of the week since my last update! 

    

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    JC

  • Just enjoying some new dress up fun stuff!
    
    
    
    
  
  So What's COMING UP?? (Some Math and Reading will vary among students)
  
  1. Two week study on music in preparation for our field trip to the CSP
  2. Two week study on Community and Community vehicles.  (Have you started the project with your child?)
  3. Some 1:1 assessments in sounds and rhyme
  4. Focus on drawing 2D shapes and more identification of 2D vs. 3D shapes
  5. writing number words
  6. Most exciting for me... I will be introducing Jolly Phonics.  This program teaches the 42 SOUNDS in the English language. Your child will learn 1 sound a day.  You will get a little packet at the end of every 6th sound so you know how to help them at home too.  Again, this will be accompanied cute little songs.  
   
 

Well, is that enough for awhile? PHEW! 

I will see you all soon!

TB