April Showers

Well with our new month approaching we are preparing for spring fever!  We have been busy talking about those April showers.  So we have done a few activities to help get us in the mood.  First we wrote about what we like to do in the rain.  WOW!  They had some great ideas then we were able to do a little dot painting and dot our own umbrella or raindrop!  These things are all hanging in our hallway!  Be sure to check them out during conferences!

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!!