Dear Parents,
We have been busy finishing up some of our projects for our museum on Wednesday, March 30th. We hope you are able to come to it! We finished our mosaic flower pots and even did our own impressions of some famous impressionist paintings, including Monet’s “Waterlilies.” We also learned about pointillism and made our own paintings out of dots! We have also started learning about Egyptian art. The students will be making pyramids and have been writing their names in Egyptian hieroglyphs! Mr. Levin even showed us a Reading Rainbow video about Egyptian mummies and Egyptian artifacts found right at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston!
We have been working on a unit about measurement in math. The students have enjoyed comparing objects and have done a great job using a lot of our new math words. I would encourage you to keep practicing the addition fluency facts with your child. I will be assessing students next week and will be getting ready to send home the subtraction fluency facts cards for students to practice.
We have been doing a lot of work with our sight words in school but I would also encourage you to continue practicing these words with your child at home. The more he/she sees them and reads them in different contexts, the more familiar the words will become. I sent a list home with the students this week of the words your child knows already.
We have just recently set up our next field trip. We are going to the Big Apple Circus on Wednesday, April 13th! The circus theme will be focusing on acts from the different continents, which we have been learning about! More information about the cost, chaperoning, and what your child will need will go home the beginning of next week.
I am looking forward to meeting with all of you at our conference soon. Please try to be on time so we can stick to the schedule. If you can’t make it, please let me know and we can reschedule.
Have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
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