Good Morning,
I hope the math homework was not too
confusing. The students should now keep their math boxes at home and keep
their items in the boxes for future use. So, this week the second graders
should keep their deck of 10 frame cards in their math boxes. The first
graders should keep their 10 frame flash cards in their box.
Yesterday was the first day of having a
parent volunteer in the classroom. Harmony Kahn joined us for our station
time. It was absolutely wonderful and the kids did a fantastic job.
It was nice having an extra set of hands to work with the kids on their
sight words. Yesterday was the first flash card test of the year. The
students have spent the last week and a half working with their sight words
through a variety of sensory activities.
This afternoon, we will continue to work on
our study of Forces and Motion. In groups, the students will roll various
shaped objects (ball, wooden cube, triangular prism, hardboiled egg, book) down
a ramp. In their Science Journals, they will compare/contrast the different
objects they tried on a scale of easy to move/hard to move. Afterwards we will
discuss where the kids have seen an example of these ideas in real life and/or
connect between this experiment and their family's car. We will look at the
impact of the wheel! Students will then be asked to respond to the question:
Using what you discovered today, why do you think there are no square wheels?
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
*The math game survey form will be sent home on
Thursday and is due Friday. If you need
to Monday to complete the form, please do so.
*Jersey Day is Friday!!!
*There is an assembly on Friday.
We are
pretty much into our normal routine the last thing to fully implement is our
reading groups. I am very impressed with
the group’s achievements over the first 6 weeks of school. I hope your children are enjoying as much of
the day as I am.
Peace,
Tom
