Students’ Highlights 1/4/2024 – 1/5/2024
- Word of 2024 agamograph (lenticular) project
- PE- game King Pin
- New Year’s packet: Sparkling Cider Math,
- Science- Read aloud about how to save water and harvest rain
- Math- Multiplication
- Music- Nutcracker video listening for the dream to start
- Spanish- translating books from Spanish to English
The next Math unit, Perimeter, Area, and Polygons, begins with a study of linear measurement developing students ability to use measurement tools to measure objects. They will learn that perimeter is the distance around a 2-dimensional figure and measure the perimeter of various 2-D shapes.
This week in language arts, we continue to discover the best way to get things done with our main reading selection titled, Ba’s Business. We will explore the story element of characters. Characters’ actions cause certain events to happen in the plot and are clues to what a character is like. Grammar studies subject verb agreement when the subject is plural.
Your child is learning to use steps to help solve problems. Saying the problem without blame is the first Problem-Solving Step. With Problem-Solving Steps that they can follow, children are more likely to come up with pro-social solutions to problems. The first step is to be able to recognize blaming words. Then we can try to say the problem without blame or blaming words.
Reminders
- January 12th – January 26th Move-a-thon
- January 15th No School MLK, Jr. Day
- January 17th Half Day, 11:50 dismissal
- January 19th Relaxed Dress
- February 2nd-4th Aladdin
- February 5th-16th Parent Teacher conferences
- February 16th Second Trimester Ends
- February 19th-23rd No School, Rodeo Break
Spelling Words with the /s/ sound
- rice
- silence
- sauce
- place
- spice
- center
- juice
- erase
- pencil
- since