Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, April 25^th, 2014

Dates:

    May 7^th – Early Out!

    May 21^st – Early Out!

    May 26^th – No School

    June 2^nd – Kindergarten Class Picnic

    June 3^rd – Last Day! 11:15 Out!!

Daily 5:

We have spent the last 2 weeks working on our final comprehension strategy of synthesis.  Synthesis is how we read and our ideas change as we continue to read the book.  We have done a variety of activities to help us learn all about synthesis.  Our favorite was becoming synthesis superheroes for a couple of days!  We were able to put on our capes and masks to transform into quite the readers.  We were coming up with all sorts of conclusions while reading our stories.  Ask your child to do some of this while reading to you at home. 

Math:

We have really been pushing hard on the understanding of how numbers are made up.  We understand what a 15 is but what makes fifteen.  We are working on a group of tens and then some ones to create that number.  It has been very interesting to see the students grasping this concept more and more each day.  We have started to move on to making up the numbers past 20.  We have been learning about how many tens and ones it takes to make some of these numbers too!  Keep working hard at home on all the concepts taught so far!

Science:

We just finished up our Trees Unit!  It was a lot of fun and with some nicer weather we were able to get outdoors and explore the trees around the school.  What fun we had!  Now we are just beginning our next science unit on wood and paper!  The students are very excited to see what we are planning to learn in this area!  Be looking in their folders for some great experiments to come home.

Helpful Hints:

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

·      Talk about place value the tens and ones.

·      Continue adding and subtracting!