We had a very short week but were able to do a lot of really neat things! We continued learning about several American symbols and will finish learning about them next week. We drew and painted the Statue of Liberty to add to our displays of bald eagles and our giant American flag.
We have talked a lot about things we like this week. It turns out that we all like pizza and ice cream but that there are a lot of other things that some of us like and others don’t! Students wrote about things they like to do with their families in their November journals. They also completed an individual book about things they like. Please encourage your child to reread the books they bring home (point to the words and especially look for the word “like”).
We enjoyed a Veterans Day Assembly in the gym earlier today and welcomed several veterans that are related to Francis Wyman families. We said the Pledge of Allegiance, listened to several patriotic songs, and learned some neat facts about the flag and veterans. The Kindergarten classes even sang a little poem about our flag. You will have to see if your children remember it!
We have almost finished Topic 3 in math. We will start a new topic next week about comparing numbers 1-10. I would encourage students to continue practicing number and letter formations at home. There certainly has been a lot of improvement!
The first Francis Wyman Used Book Store will be this coming Wednesday. I sent a note home yesterday with more information. Students can either bring a quarter or a book from home to trade, although it is optional. These are different than library books because students get to keep their books from the Used Book Store. You can tell the two books apart because library books have a barcode on the back that says “Francis Wyman Library.” We will be visiting the library on the same day as the Used Book Store.
We will start learning about the Wampanoags and Pilgrims during the next couple of weeks before Thanksgiving. I hope the students will be able to comprehend a little about how different it was to live 400 years ago. We will start the unit by reading a book by Kate Waters entitled, "Tapenaum, the Story of an Indian Boy". This book has accurate information and photos taken from the Wampanoag village at Plimouth Plantation. It is a book that depicts the lives of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags in the 1620's. We try to emphasize how different their lives were from ours, but that family was then, and is now, very important. Hopefully they will come away from this unit with a tiny bit of understanding and thankfulness for all we have today.
I sent home a paper explaining the early dismissal for our half day of school on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Please fill it out and return it as soon as possible. Thank you!
The students added a post to their Seesaw accounts today. If you haven’t signed up for it yet, please do! I’m sure you will enjoy seeing your child’s work and hearing them talk about what they learned! Let me know if you need the instructions again.
I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend! No school on Monday. Happy Veterans Day to all the men and women who have served and are currently serving our country. Thank you for your service!
Melanie Duncan
PS...Please be sure to send in hats, mittens, warmer jackets, etc. for your children now that the temperatures are dropping more...and don’t forget to LABEL EVERYTHING and have your child practice putting it all on and taking it all off. Thank you!
No comments:
Post a Comment