Classroom Update 5/21

Hello! Today, for P day, we kicked off a mini poetry unit by reading and writing a few poems. We’ll continue working with poetry next week! Each child brought home their poem from today, so please take some time to read it with them. In writing, students were...

Math Update 5/21

We’ve been working hard at telling time to the hour and half hour! We spent time talking about and drawing hour hands correctly today. They should be shorter than minute hands. They should also point halfway between the current and upcoming hour for a half-hour...

Classroom Update 5/19

Today, for N day, we did a nature walk to look for natural materials to help us create Andy Goldsworthy inspired art! I’ve attached a few pictures of our creations to this email. I’ll also put 2 others on the class website. The students received new...

Math Update 5/19

In math, we’ve been working on getting some students caught up on work as well as doing a geometry “I Spy” activity that the students have been creating. They are beautiful! Ask you child about what their I Spy drawing looks like. Tomorrow we will be...

Classroom Update 5/18

In science we worked on separating the particles of a soup mix. We learned the word particles as meaning small pieces. The students used sorting screen to help them sort. In writing, one of our prompts dealt with writing a letter. After I checked a few journal entries...