We have been busy working on our art projects for our museum on Thursday, April 4. We hope you are able to come to it! We finished our Egyptian hieroglyphs, did Scottish tartan weaving, and made sunflowers (similar to the impressionist Vincent Van Gogh).
We made a class book called “It Looked Like Spilt Milk” that has started circulating. We also made Car Books and Color Flip Flap books. Both projects required students to use sight words to write whole sentences. These are all great books for your child to read and reread at home.
We have been doing a lot of work with our sight words in school but I would also encourage you to continue practicing these words with your child at home. The more he/she sees them and reads them in different contexts, the more familiar the words will become.
We’ve learned a little more about eggs and chicks this week and watched a video Miss P. made about candling the eggs to check for fertilized and developing eggs. The eggs should be delivered to our classroom on Monday. We will be watching the eggs every day to check for cracks and baby chicks!
We are looking forward to learning more about the countries that our students’ ancestors have come from next week. We will list the different countries with student names and even look up many of them on Google Earth to see where they are in relation to where we live. If you haven’t returned the form about where your child’s ancesters came from, please try to by the beginning of next week. The students have been learning a lot of neat facts about continents. We learned a little about Europe but have spent most of the week learning about Africa.
We enjoyed a special show this morning by “New Friends,” a barber shop quartet competing this weekend. You will have to ask your child about it!
Have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
PS… If you are interested in volunteering in the classroom during the month of April, please email me to let me know which day(s) you are available. The volunteer time is from 10:10-10:55am daily.
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