Hello! Sorry I’m late to update:
This past week, we learned about the presidents and qualities of a leader. We also learned about National USA symbols and compared them to what we learned about our KS symbols. We also learned about the eagle being the national bird. We are now able to get on the raptorresource.org site and watch the eagle nest in Decorah, Iowa. I usually do this much earlier in the year and we get to see them lay the eggs, but the snow days threw us all off. They have two eggs and are due to hatch around March 23rd. It’s a fun way for the kids to learn about an eagle as up close and personal as we’ll be able to get.
We also learned all about hibernation and hibernating animals. The bears got to spend the day with us doing hibernation activities and helped the kids forage for their snack. Then they went into their dens to hibernate. They will come out of hibernation after we are finishing learning about bears and doing our bear reports which we started today. Each day we will learn about a different bear and will write our own fact sentences about that bear. By the end, we will have a great research report on bears to share with you! It’s a great way to incorporate all of our language arts and science skills in one place!
We are hard at work on subtraction and learning that the number decreases each time we subtract. Being able to quickly recall simple addition and subtraction facts to 10 will really help them in the long run. This would be a great thing to practice in the car!!
The kids have been doing a great job lately and are working hard towards our class goal. We celebrated on Friday with a Wild Kratts movie on bears and had some popcorn. They voted on our next goal which will be a movie and a treasure box choice once our goal sheet is full. They earn “cookies” for the cookie sheet by lining up with face forward, voices off, and hands to self.
This week, we will learn all about bears, we’ll have a teddy bear day on next Monday (shhh, it’s a surprise), finish up bears, have a Dr. Seuss day, have a leprechaun day and the Friday before spring break will be QU wedding! The letters Q and U will get married and we’ll have an actual wedding and reception in class. The boys will come dressed as quarterbacks and the girls will be queens. More info. to come!!
I did send home a book order. Those will be due on March 8th by noon.
Thanks again for making time to come to conferences. It was really great to see and talk to everyone. Have a great week! Please check the weather for Wed. It’s supposed to be COLD again!!
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