C'mon Spring!

Spring starts next week! Or does it? Fingers crossed. Here are the latest updates on learning and growing we are seeing in room 4:

In math students have been working on building and decomposing 2-D and 3-D shapes. Last week students reviewed and learned 2-D and 3-D shapes and their attributes and this week we took it a step farther, where students composed composite shapes by putting 2-D shapes together to make new shapes or building with 3-D shapes to make 3-D structures and new forms. This geometry unit is a lot of fun for students because it is so hands on.

In reading students continue to look at the CVCe pattern and the long and short vowels. Students are learning how to as endings to these words such as -ing, -ed and -s/-es. They have learning that you drp the e when adding -ed and -ing to the ending and just add an s (rather than adding another e)Students have been practicing scooping syllables and as part of our reading comprehension curriculum, students have been working on inferring and visualizing. When you read with your child at home, please continue to work on these skills.

For our writing, students continue to work on their realistic fiction stories and are expected to complete their first story by next week. Students will then write a "sequel" or a another book with the same character, as a series. We have wrapped up our unit on American symbols and will be starting a light and sound science unit next week.

We had a fun "St. Patrick's Day" visit from Mr. Shea to teach us about his family and some Celtic traditions. Mr. Shea is Scottish but his family is originally from Ireland. The students enjoyed his read aloud.

Thank you for the recent snack contributions to our classroom! We welcome any more contributions and we continue to move through the year. 

WISH LIST:

2-3 bottles for project: http://www.joann.com/lumi-inkodye-bottle-8-oz/zprd_13270749a.html#q=inkodye&start=4

Snack


Have agreat weekend! And here is a fun idea to help the environment and welcome spring:

http://www.cheerios.com/bringbackthebees/form