Dear Room 4 Families, This week we started our Geometry unit in math. Your child is learning the names and attributes of different shapes. We are learning the math vocabulary to talk about plane shapes and solid figures, (vertex/vertices, sides, faces, equal, divide, etc). In English Language Arts, we examined the story structure and various […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 11/6/15
Dear Room 4 Families, This week we wrapped up our math unit on place value to 100. Your child took a benchmark math test to determine how much they have learned so far this trimester. We will be starting our next unit, which will be geometry, on Monday. We are still in the middle of […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 10/30/15
Dear Room 4 Families, Your child had such a fun time during our Halloween craft rotations today! Thank you to the awesome parents who donated their time to come run a center and to all of the families that donated supplies and money towards the classroom celebration. Your child should have come home with a […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 10/23/15
Dear Room 4 Families, Thank you to those who have been donating time, money, supplies, etc. towards our classroom supplies, field trips, and our upcoming Halloween party. We will be celebrating for the last part of Friday next week, which is a regular school day. Your child has the option to wear black and orange […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 10/15/15
Dear Room 4 Families, This week your child has been practicing what to do in the event of an earthquake. We participated in The Great Shakeout at 10:15 am. Your child also learned about water conservation in our Earthscapades assembly. This week in school we have started our informational writing unit. Your child will be […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 10/2/15
Dear Room 4 Families, This week your child has continued writing stories about themselves in their personal narrative writing unit. We have studied the phonics for our spelling words this week as well as examined the story structure of several different stories. In math, we have been learning about fact families, doubles, doubles plus one, […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 9/25/15
Dear Room 4 Families, Your child had a wonderful time learning about their carbon footprint and the impact that they have on the Earth. Your child learned about how global warming is affecting the Earth and the creatures that live on it, including themselves. Your child had the opportunity to do a science experiment to […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 9/18/15
Dear Room 4 Families, Your child has been very busy learning this week! This week we passed the 15th day of school, which marks the big day for any major changes in classroom enrollment. Our classroom was lucky enough to stay with its current roster. Today we passed out our first homework packet. We went […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 9/11/15
Dear Room 4 Parents, Your child had a busy week of learning during this shortened week. We started some new routines such as using interactive journals, writer’s workshop, and math games. We have been really pushing the idea of what independent means and practicing independent behavior. This week we have been reinforcing routines and expectations […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 9/4/15
Dear Room 4 Families, Your child had a great first full week of school! We have continued with establishing routines, behavioral expectations, reviewing some 1st grade skills, and setting the expectations that we will have a good work ethic in the classroom. We sat down and came up with our classroom manifesto, did a project […]
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