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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.