We are officially on the countdown! We should begin hatching in 28 days! Our eggs were placed in the incubator this morning. We have to turn them twice a day and maintain a 100 degree temperature. Today we took the feathered friend pledge with Dr. Patterson promising to take good care of our ducklings! We will keep you posted!
Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful spring break and were able to spend lots of time with you family. It is hard to believe we only have about 7 weeks left! This year has zipped by in the blink of an eye!
We are beginning our unit on egg hatching. We will be researching all about how to hatch duck eggs and how to care for them after hatching. This is always a fun time of year as we eagerly await our new arrivals. We will be getting our eggs tonight and begin the incubation countdown tomorrow. The students will be so excited and will be ready to tell you all about it!
We will be reading informational texts as we research egg hatching. We will be identifying important features found in informational texts. We will begin making our own informational book based on our egg hatching experience and research. In math, we will be reviewing our unit on addition and subtraction before taking our assessment this week. We will begin our new unit on measurement next. In science, we will begin documenting the changes we notice in spring compared to winter.
Don't forget to check back to learn more about our egg hatching fun.
A couple of important notes for the week. Remember to sign up for Boosterthon, our spring fundraiser. Information went home last week about this fundraiser. Also, we have a field trip planned for March 6th. Be on the lookout for permission slips and cover letters tonight in homework folders. Another change you will notice this week, students will have homework in their folders. Homework will be due by Friday each week.
We will be finishing plans from last week due to the inclement weather. Our sight words this week will be: want, lots, of. We will continue learning about matter. In math, we will be continuing our addition unit. One way that you may help at home would be by providing math story problems and having your child solve them with counters, such as cereal, then write a number sentence to match. For instance, have them combine 3 blue Fruit Loops plus 4 red Fruit Loops then write 3+4=7. We are reading books by Laura Numeroff and learning about cause and effect. We are also comparing and contrasting texts. We are writing non-fiction texts to go along with our matter unit. As you can see we will be having a busy week!
We will begin learning about different types of matter this week including paper, wood, metal, and cloth. We will be reading books by Laura Numeroff to better understand cause and effect through her circular texts. We will also be learning about alliteration. We will use her stories as a guide for writing this week too. As you can tell we will be very busy in language arts this week! I'm also excited about digging deeper into our new math unit on addition. Remember to use your logins and passwords to access the learning odyssey from home; this is a great resource for improving MAP scores.
We are finished with our study of winter and its effect on people, plants, and animals. We will spend this week learning about American symbols and famous Americans. We will begin learning about addition. Our sight words will be: will, had, & that. We will be reading and writing about America.
