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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!

Bat Presentations

Once all those bat reports were written we had to decide what we were going to do with them.  The class decided they would like to read them to another group of students.  So I spoke with a fourth grade classroom teacher and asked if we could buddy them up to read their report.  She thought that was a great idea and WOW it was!!  We spend a couple days working very hard on being able to read our reports and the proper way to read the report to someone else.  We worked on talking loud enough and not putting the paper in front of our face.  It was a great time to read these to other students and those 4th grade students even learned something they didn't know about bats.  :)

When I Grow Up...

This week is the celebrating the Week of the Young Child.  We did a little writing about what we would like to be when we grew up.  It is a lot of fun to see what ideas each child has for their future!  They are hanging in our hallway hope you get some time to check them out!

Bat Report Writing

WOW!  Last week we finished up all our work on bats.  We first learned all the facts that we could on them.  We learned a lot of really cool things we did not know before!  Then we moved on to preparing to write a non-fiction piece of writing all about bats.  We started first with a plan to help us figure out what facts were important to us.  Then we worked on our ending sentences.  They had some great ideas on those.  Here are a few pictures of us working hard on writing our reports.

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!!