May 6, 2016 Newsletter

Dear Parents,

We have had a very busy week here in Room 115!  The students have been working hard and learning lots!  We have been learning a lot about nature.  So far we have learned about trees, flowers, and seeds.  We just started a unit today on insects and life cycles.  We are excited to be able to observe life cycles in our classroom with the caterpillars and tadpoles and luna moth chrysalis!  The students are learning about all the different body parts of insects and are even learning how to label their drawings.  You’ll have to ask them to sing the “Head, Thorax, Abdomen” Song!

We have been doing butterfly symmetry at the art table and just finished measuring our tall flowers with non-standard units.  We have officially finished Kindergarten math and will be doing some Step Up to First Grade Math Lessons during the next couple of weeks.  The students are pretty excited to be doing first grade math!  Please continue helping your child practice his/her subtraction facts.  I will be getting ready to assess them soon.  The more they practice…the better they will get! 

We have been learning a lot about the seven continents and started making a continents book this week.  So far we have read and learned about Africa and Australia.  We will continue learning about the other continents next week.  You will have to ask your child to tell you what they have learned so far!  They are actually pretty intrigued… at least a lot more than I thought they would be!

The students have been working more with narrative writing.  I am impressed with how far their writing has come and know you will enjoy reading their stories when they come home in a few weeks.  

I would like to extend a very Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful mothers in Room 115!  We hope the gifts your child gives you will be special and meaningful.  You have permission to open your gifts today.  Your gift will most likely need water before Sunday!

Have a great weekend!

Melanie Duncan

Here are a few pictures of some of the amazing artwork completed by the students this week.  We enjoyed going for our nature walk around the school too and observing how all the rain has helped everything grow even more this week!  Now all the we need is a little more sun!