Weekly Newsletter - February 21-25

 

Dear Families,

We hope you enjoyed the unexpected ice day as much as we did! We are so glad we still got to celebrate 2-22-22!! Twins and tutus and ties...oh my!

ELA

This week in ELA we read books about  Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and what it is like to be a president. One of our read alouds was titled Abe Lincoln's Hat by Martha Brenner.  While listening to the story, we worked on the skills of predicting, problem and solution, and making connections.  Our focus vocabulary words were President and slavery...be sure to ask us what those words mean. 

We loved making connections with Abraham Lincoln and coming up with ideas of what we would keep in our tall top hats.  Check out the cute project we made to go along with our writing!

(I would keep my blanket in my hat.)

(I would keep my stuffie in my hat.)

(I would keep popcorn in my hat.)

This week our phonics focus was ing.  Be sure to ask your child to sing the -ing song that helps us remember how to read and spell -ing!

Our 2 new sight words were your and if. We had fun playing a Presidents themed game of Tic Tac Toe each morning this week! Ask your child to read the words and tell you who won our game!

We hope you enjoyed listening to our poem this week! We loved learning about the different presidents on each coin!

During our Writer's Workshop, we continue to work on our Informative Books. We are using the Bubble Maps we wrote at home to help us with our writing.  We can't wait to share our books with you!

Math

This week in math we continued to look at three-dimensional shapes.  The kids engaged in sorting by attributes, investigating spheres, searching for certain shapes around the room and building shapes with polydrons.  We also continue to count and compare quantities.  At home, you could ask us to count by 10's to 100 or count by 1's to 100.  If we can do both of those...ask us to count starting at 48 or 62 to 100 - we need lots of practice with these skills!

*Next week is Read Across America Week - check out the poster to see the theme of each day...