Good Evening Parents!
Thank you for all you are doing at home, I really enjoy seeing everyone engaged as we are working together on a Zoom assignment. It makes it feel almost 'normal'.
Thank you for the pictures of your child in a Goat Mask! We loved them. I hope you had fun reenacting the story. There is always that person who loves being the troll and one who loves being the Big Billy Goat. Who will that be in your family? Enjoy! Laugh!
This week in Language Arts, the students explored the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff (read by KB Teacher Mrs. Campbell and KC Teaching Assistant Mrs. Thareja) by learning about the setting, characters, problem and solution and they learned that stories have a sequence. Today the students listened to the book ,"Do unto Otters' read by KB Teaching Assistant Mrs. Stuart which was an interesting take on the saying, "Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You", the Golden Rule. The students watched how harsh words can hurt someone's heart and even though we say 'sorry', the 'wrinkles' never quite get rubbed out of our hearts. We need to be 'great hearted' and treat people how we want to be treated.
In Math, the students made the numbers 2 and 3 by sorting and grouping, by using ten frames, number lines, tally marks, drawing and tracing and writing the numbers. The class is getting very familiar with these papers but there are some serious concepts being introduced, even if it seems 'easy'.
History/Geography this week, the students reviewed that there are seven continents on planet Earth and learned that we live on the continent of North America. They filled out half of the book called "I'm learning about the Continent of North America" live on Zoom and then the second half with me by watching a video. I learned that Mexico City is the largest city in North America. I didn't know that.
The students watched Mrs. Jarrett, our Dean of Students and 504 Coordinator, read the story about the Apple Life Cycle for Science and then the students filled out the parts of the apple and the Apple Life Cycle paper. Then LIVE on Wednesday, the students were read the story of Johnny Appleseed, who was a real person, although his story has been exaggerated. It is a Tall Tale (part fact/part fiction).
In Spalding, the students continued to practice all 6 strokes or lines: the clock circle, the short, tall, straight, slant and horizontal lines and they took their first "test" on whether they could write the correct stroke by name. This was great test taking practice as we introduce the first 5 phonograms on Monday with our first true test on Friday.