PANDA NEWS:

I hope everyone enjoyed the vacation last week.  We are back in the swing of school.    Thank you to all who came out and showed your support for the school Friday night.  

 

Language Arts:  

 

The students found we in the sight word book.  We also practiced all our sight words this week.  The more sight words they recognize in their reading the less work they will have to do as a reader.  It is a lot like learning your math facts in math.  We have begun an introduction to procedural writing "How To's".  The have started to reads some "How To's" and brainstorm things they could write about.   We looked at the special characteristics of "How To's".  They found some have glossaries for important words.  

 

Math:

We played some addition games and have continued to work on tricky teens.  We also have be working on persevering when things are thought provoking.  We talked about how important it is to be able to communicate your math thinking and to be able to subitize.  When you kids are working with dice see if they can recognize the dot pattern rather than counting each time especially if they are adding 2 dice.

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Art:  

 

The students made pots of gold and clouds to go with rainbows they painted.   

    

Book of the Week:  How To Make Cupcakes

Movement of the week: Yoga Cosmic Kids

Upcoming Events:

 

Handwriting Letters: j & p

Phonics Letters: e

Word of the Week: go

No School Friday: 3/17

Early Release Thursday: 3/16

Field Trip 3/22 Music Hall 11:30

Parent Conferences in April