Homework went home today. Please remember to have children write their names and all hw should be in pencil, unless drawing is involved. :) Hw is due Friday.
Did your little ones tell you about their pumpkin plants? We were so excited to see that most of the seeds we planted last week have already sprouted! We made science journals today and will record our plant observations every week.
This week's reading and science will include fiction and nonfiction books about nocturnal animals. We will share what we Know about the topic, what we Want to know, and what we've Learned by the end of the week. Your children will get to know the KWL chart really well this year! Today, we learned a few facts about bats. Ask your child what a baby bat is called (pup) and what bats use to help them find their way around at night (echolocation).
Language Arts: We are writing facts about bats and owls and will continue sounding out words to write in our sentences. Focus is on beginning our sentences with capital letters, spacing words apart, and ending with punctuation.
Math: Emphasis this week is on ordering numbers 0 to 5 and ordinal positions (first, second, third, etc). In class, we use connecting cubes to make towers of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The children place the towers in order from fewest to most, then most to fewest. We will also have plastic cups labeled 0-5 in which we'll place the correct number of objects (you can use beans, seeds, acorns, pennies, rocks) in each cup. Cups are to be lined up in order. You might also want to practice ordinal positions. Line your family up, one behind the other, at the door. Ask who is first, second, third... then change directions and ask "Now, who is first, second, third..." Have your child line up stuffed animals, dolls, army men, or shoes and identify first to fifth positions.
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