We have been busy working on our art projects for our museum on Tuesday, April 11. We hope you are able to come to it! We finished our Picasso pictures and started learning about Impressionist painting. We even started our own impressions of some famous impressionist paintings, including Monet’s “Waterlilies.” We also learned about pointillism and made our own paintings out of dots. It was an impressive amount of work for a short week due to a snow day and a two-hour delay!
Students finished their “All I Am” books and read them to the class before bringing them home. I would encourage you to encourage your child to read them and their other books often. We also made a class book called “It Looked Like Spilt Milk” that will start circulating next week.
We went to the library this week and had a chance to explore some different stations. Ms. Carney, our librarian, and Mrs. Ardizzoni and Mrs. Gennaco, our technology teachers, had some fun activities for the students to try. We didn’t get a chance to pick out books so we will go again this coming Wednesday. If you haven’t returned the library book, please try to return it by Wednesday.
We attended an all-school assembly today. The theme was RESPECT. We will be focusing on being respectful and demonstrating ACTS OF KINDNESS as part of our SOARS motto.
We started a new topic in math. We are continuing to work with teen numbers and are talking about groups of tens and ones left over. The students have been doing very well with this. I would encourage you to keep practicing the addition fluency facts with your child. I am in the middle of assessing students on their addition facts and will be getting ready to send home the subtraction fluency facts cards again for students to practice.
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. I will send a list home with the students this coming week of the words your child knows already.
I will be sending a St. Patrick’s Day assignment home on Monday. I am asking parents to fill out a paper explaining the different countries their ancestors came from. We have been learning about the different continents and I thought this would be a fun thing for us to do. We will locate the countries on a map once most students have returned their papers.
I am looking forward to meeting with all of you at our conference soon. Please try to be on time so we can stick to the schedule. If you can’t make it, please let me know and we can reschedule. If possible, please try to confirm the time I gave through email so I know if you can make it. Please let me know if you need me to send the date and time again.
Have a great weekend! Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Melanie Duncan
PS...Students should plan to continue bringing snowpants, boots, hats, mittens, etc., especially if they plan to play in the snow at recess next week. It looks like it might stick around for a little while!
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