I hope you all had a wonderful vacation! I loved hearing all the stories that your children came back with! They were all excited to share what special times you had last week.
We have had a busy week in Room 115! We have started learning all about seeds, trees, and plants. We will start learning about insects soon. The students made trees and labeled each of the parts at the art table. They wrote in their journals about their vacations, what trees give us, and about how seeds travel. Their writing is coming along nicely. We have been practicing putting spaces between our words, periods at the end of the sentences, and uppercase letters at the beginning of sentences. They will continue writing narrative stories during the next couple of weeks and will be writing stories about themselves and some things they have done!
We have read several of Eric Carle’s books this week. We started making our own versions of “The Very Busy Spider.” These will come home when they are finished. We also read “The Tiny Seed” and have started making our own giant flowers in the art area. We also finished a class book called “If There Were No Trees.” Please be sure to return all class books as soon as you are done reading them.
We took more pictures of different plants/trees around our school this week. We have been discussing the changes in nature we have been observing. I would encourage you to do something similar at home if you are able to. I would love for students to bring in their pictures or drawings in a few weeks to show us the changes in nature they observed at their homes! We also planted pumpkin seeds in our classroom this afternoon. We will make observations about how they grow and students will take them home in a couple of weeks.
The students enjoyed their SOAR reward time this afternoon. They got to pick an activity (either playing games in the gym, playing board games in the library, or doing art projects in the art room).
It certainly was a busy week! We have more exciting happenings coming up during the month of May!
Enjoy your weekend!
Melanie Duncan
PS...The next FW Used Bookstore is Wednesday, May 8. Students are welcome to bring in either a quarter or a book from home to trade.
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