BATS!!

We have been working very hard on our Informative writing skills.  We spent last week learning all sorts of different information we could about bats.  We have learned A LOT of great information.  Now this week we are taking all our findings to paper and writing our first informative piece of writing.  We are hoping by the end of the week we will be able to present it to another class!  It has been a lot of fun!

Crazy Sock Day!!

Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, March 28^th, 2014

Dates:

    April 1^st- 1:05 Out and P/T Conferences 3-8

    April 3^rd – 1:05 Out and P/T Conferences 3-8

    April 4^th – No School

    April 9^th – Early Out

    April 18^th – No School

    April 21^st – We HAVE school!!

Daily 5:

We spent the week before spring break reviewing all the comprehension strategies that we have practice so far.  It was great to see what they remembered and how they were able to take things a step further into their learning.  Now this week we have moved on to inferring while reading.  We do this by looking at the clues while we are reading to draw meaning from them.  This can be a bit tricky so we spend a couple weeks doing activities to help us really understand this concept.

Math:

We are continuing to work on our subtraction unit.  This has been a challenge in our room.  We are spending a lot of time reviewing that you count up all that you have first.  This will be your biggest number.  Then you take away and what you have left is the answer.  Please continue to practice at home.  All week we have worked on a variety of ways to subtract.  We used objects, touch math, and a number line. 

Science:

We have been very busy discussing the different parts that trees have.  We also have discussed that all trees have these parts.  Then we moved to leaves.  We have been able to find some great leaves to really look at.  We have learned that leaves all have a shape that they can fit into and no two leaves are exactly the same.  This has been fun and we can’t wait to keep up all our investigating.

Helpful Hints:

·      Start talking about place value with the tens and ones.

·      Continue adding and subtracting!

·      Read each night at home to continue their improvements.

Preparing for St. Patrick's Day

Before break we spent all of our writing time working on different things that dealt with St. Patrick's Day!  We had a great time!  We wrote about 3 wishes we would have if we found a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Also we wrote about who is more important to us than a pot of gold!  Hope you enjoyed all these things coming home!

DEAR Time~

On our final day of Read Across America we spent some time doing a little Drop Everything And Read for 20 minutes.  The whole school participated and it was A LOT of fun!  Here are some pictures of us busy reading!!

St. Patrick's Day Painting!!

Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, March 7^th, 2014

Dates:

    March 12^th – Early Out and Report Cards Go Home!

    March 14^th – No School for K students due to Round Up!!

    March 17-21- No School – Spring Break

    March 26- Early Out

Daily 5:

We have been very busy working on determining importance and visualizing in our reading.  We spent a lot of time working on finding the hidden clues to determine the importance in our books we read.  Also we took time to make pictures in our minds while reading to help us with visualizing the story.

Also many of us moved to a new level in our book clubs so we are enjoying reading harder books.  If they did not move to a new level they are continuing their hard work at their level.  We are really working on the strategies of sounding out, looking at the beginning sound, and chunking the word to figure it out!

Math:

We have been very busy finishing up our addition unit.  We worked on understanding that adding means you are getting more.  We spent time on the plus sign and the equal sign.  They also know how to write an addition sentence all on their own.  Keep working on this at home.  In our new unit we will be working on subtraction. The students will be learning about how when you subtract that means you are taking away.  This can be harder so we are taking extra time to make sure we understand this concept!  Please discuss this at home also!

Science:

We began our Science unit discussing trees!  What a topic to discuss with all this snow on the ground but we have been creative!  J  We have discussed the main parts of all trees, looked at a real tree, and we have even been working on figuring out the shapes of trees.  It has been a lot of fun and we are excited to move on to learning about the leaves on trees next! 

Helpful Hints:

·      Practice Counting by 10’s to 100!

·      Start working on basic subtraction at home.  2 minus 1 equals 1.