Here are a few reminders for this week:
REMINDERS
Monday: Reading homework bags come home. Complete one response from the reading notebook. Don’t forget to practice sight words and read, read, read! RAZkids can be used anytime, not just for homework assignments!
Tuesday: Tuesday folders and report cards come home. Please sign the report card envelope and return it the next day. You may keep the white report card print out. Thank you!
Wednesday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Friday: Spring Holiday (No School)
READING and WRITING
We will continue our research about chicks. The children are very excited to have eggs in our incubators and we are expecting them to hatch in less than three weeks! We are recording the facts that we learn and also jotting down our "wonder" questions. The "wonder" questions will encourage us to do more research and find out more. So far, we have been learning about how a chick grows inside an egg and the body parts of chicks. This week we will learn about the life cycle of a chicken, as well as where chickens live and what they eat.
MATH
We will continue working on telling time to the hour and this week we will focus on telling time to half-hour. We will look at both analog and digital clocks and learn that time is shown differently on each of these clocks. The short hand in the analog clock points to the "hour" and the long hand points to the "minute". In digital clock time is shown by digits. The digit before the two dots shows the hour and the digits after two dots show the minute.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will focus on living things and their offspring. We will learn that the offspring usually resemble their parents. We have been learning about the interdependency of living things in their ecosystem. This week we will move on to simple food chains. We will learn how the plants are the producers, and can make their own food but other living things either depend on each other or the plants for food.