Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, April 11^th, 2014

Dates:

    April 18^th – No School

    April 21^st – We HAVE school!!

    April 23^rd – Early Out!

    April 25^th – Our Class Field Trip to the Youth Pavilion 11:40 until 2:45

    May 7^th – Early Out!

Daily 5:

We have really been working on a variety of comprehension strategies in our classroom.  We are working on Metacognition, Schema, making a picture in your mind, determining importance, questioning, and inferring.  All of these take a lot of time and require your child to think about what they are reading in their book club books.  Please ask them to tell you what each of these mean!  We are also beginning to re-test for new levels at our Guided Reading Level.  Please make sure to ask your child how they are doing.

Math:

We started these past two weeks off with a new math unit on the numbers to 100.  We have the first 30 down but now are really working on the rest.  Some of us are really good with these numbers and a great at helping all of us understand.  We have spent the last 2 weeks understanding the tens and ones that go into making these numbers.  It can be tricky but we are getting it.  J

Science:

We have finished up our investigations on leaves and now we are working on what comes from trees.  We spent some time outside under the trees picking up objects that might have fallen from a tree.  That was a lot of fun!  We are still going to continue to go on many “hunts” as we continue to learn about different types of trees.

Helpful Hints:

·      Start to work on recognizing and counting penny, nickel, and dimes.

·      Start talking about place value the tens and ones.

·      Continue adding and subtracting!