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.