We are excited about Kindness Week next week. Please make sure to read the emails from Tritt and note what the students are doing each day to promote kindness awareness.
Today we had the special guidance speaker who brought her puppet and discussed good touch, bad touch with the students. Be sure to follow up with your child about what they learned. Shannon Bond always presents this subject in an age appropriate way that keeps the students engaged and informed. Thanks to Mrs. Edwards for arranging this program each year. In reading we began working in our Common Core Performance Coach book. This book contains articles/stories and coaches the students step-by-step on how to analyze the article and recognize the important features. We began with the lesson about how to organize research notes and stay on topic. There are two stories in each lesson. The first one we will do in small groups so we can teach and support the students as they learn. They will bring the 2nd article home for homework, but will have several nights to finish it. The best way to support your child is to let them try independently and then review it with them. Thanks for your help with this! REMINDERS: - Bring in Valentine box/bag and Valentines for our Tuesday exchange. Target will come back to our class at 1:30 for this. - Next Friday we will have the stuffed animal day the students earned when they filled up their compliment bucket in December. I almost forgot about it, but they didn't! They may bring in 1 stuffed animal that fits in the book bag. NEXT WEEK: Math: Now that the students are making progress telling time to the minute we will start working on elapsed time. Also, we will continue with the 8's tables. They are slowing down about 1/2 the class, so keep practicing. Reading and Writing: Each child picked an animal of GA to research. We will work on taking notes, organizing them, and writing a 5 paragraph report for the next couple of weeks. Science: We have traveled south from the mountain region to the Piedmont region. Now we will continue traveling to the coastal plains, swamps and marshes, and the coast of GA. As we explore each region students are studying the animals/plants that live in that region. On Wednesday we will have a special STEM lesson from 8:30-10:30. Everyone will stay with our class as they try to create an animal that will survive in a particular GA region. What a great opportunity for them to apply the science they've learned to an engineering design challenge! Hope your family is staying well and have a super weekend.
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