It’s been a “beary” fun week while becoming bear scientists and researching and writing reports about 4 different kinds of bears! Reports will be coming home today. The kids worked hard to find a “good” fact about the bear and to write a good sentence with capital letters, spaces between words, and a period at the end. Some are great at writing their own sentences and some have worked with me for additional support. Practicing writing at home is a GREAT idea, but please reinforce those capital letters and spaces and make sure they are writing the letters correctly. I’m sure they’ll be excited to share their reports with you.
On Monday, our bears will come out of hibernation (shhh..it’s a surprise) and we will have teddy bear day. We will do lots of fun activities with our bears and then they will come home.
We are finishing up subtraction and will go to teen numbers and place value after this week. Your child should be able to count to 40 independently at this time and most have already made it to 100. If they haven’t per our discussion at conferences, please keep practicing at home. We are working on lots of problem solving and they are learning to figure out what the problem is asking and what words tell us if it’s addition or subtraction, and then different ways to show and solve the problem.
Next Friday, March 8th will be QU wedding day. Info. will come home on Monday. They will also be bringing home a QU gift paper. This is their wedding gift to bring to the wedding. They are due Thursday the 7th, but can be turned in when done. You can help them come up with a word that starts with qu and (this time only :)) you can write it on the paper. They will draw a picture of that word and color in the present and return to school. Girls can come dressed as queens (think princess or pretty dress, but leave heels at home) and boys can come dressed as quarterbacks (football shirt or jersey). We will have an actual wedding as Q and U have to be together to make words and then a reception will follow. Super super fun day in K!
A few reminders for next week:
- Spring picture day is Tues. March 5th. Pictures will come home when printed and then if you want to keep them, you pay for what you want and return what you don’t, or return the whole packet. They will take class pictures that day too. Class pictures are $10 and must be paid for ahead of time, either in cash or online. Envelopes came home a few days ago. They can bring clothes to change into if you’d like.
- Book orders are due March 8th by NOON. Our class code is HWML6 on scholastic.com
- All book/game bags are due by Wed. March 6th. I will be keeping those here over spring break and will return them after break. Please be sure you’re only keep those a few days. They can’t practice if they don’t have new books at home to practice with.
- I am sending home a Lucky Charms spring break packet for the kids to work on. They will use the Lucky Charms marshmallows to do some sorting and math. There is also a writing page on the back that the KIDS need to do the writing and stretching out their words. Packets that are returned on Tues after break will earn stickers.
- Spring break is Monday March11th-18th. Kids will come back to school on the 19th.
- Please be sure to keep sending in coats, you know how are weather can change drastically in a day!
Have a good weekend!
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