Greetings & Happy MLK Jr. Day!
First years have finished up their study of amphibians and all of the differences and similarities they have with fish. They are also practicing addition facts and using the snake game (ask your child about this game - it's a fun material). They are also studying basic land forms and water forms, defining them and identifying different forms on a map. Florida is a popular peninsula! They've finished up creating their own Asia maps and now they're working on labeling all of the countries. Quite the task.
Spelling words: ship, hip, lip, dip, trip, flip, drip, skip, chip
Second years have been working hard on finishing their Clock of Eras. Some are learning to use the checkerboard to learn long multiplication for the first time and all of them are using their geometry skills to categorize triangles by sides (equilateral, isosceles, scalene) and angles (acute, obtuse, right). Ask your child how many angles have to be acute for a triangle to be called an acute-angled triangle or if it's possible to build an obtuse-angled, equilateral triangle. See if they can rebuild all seven triangles that we built at the lesson! They are also using grid drawing to recreate a huge map of asia. They're learning to take a map and draw it square by square to recreate a map 3 times larger. Very fun.
Spelling words: Pond, end, land, lend, send, bend, wind, sand, band, mend
Third years have gone head first into studying the history behind the Great Wall of China. They had some amazing questions and made some fascinating discoveries. See if they can share some facts about the Great Wall's complicated and scary history. They have been practicing the commutative property and the multiplication facts and they're joining the second graders in creating the large Asia map.
Spelling words: /s/ spelling - ce & cy
cereal, fence, bounce, concert, peace, bicycle, mercy,
bouncy, fancy, spicy
Breaking News! Como Residency Program February 2-6 - 9:00-2:30
All of the students are also practicing how to observe using all 5 of their senses. They are observing classrooms, other students playing at recess and lessons. They're honing in on their scientific observation skills so that they can get the most of of this amazing opportunity that LEW gets to experience at Como Conservatory for a whole week! Check the brochure below for more information. I'll be sending these brochures home next Thursday.
Volunteer opportunity
It would be wonderful to have a couple of parent volunteers each day of the week to help the students during activities and to break out into smaller groups. Let know if you'd like to join us on this adventure!
Big Thanks
To Heather Thomas, Susan Sochacki, Michael Winikoff, Jessica Coburn and Jennifer Taylor for their continued support and help during the day to day in our classroom. The work you're doing is truly meaningful to our community.
To Rebeccah Berry for practicing math facts with the students!
To the Shay family for doing our laundry.
To the Martinez family for our delicious snacks and rolling so many yarn balls.
To all of you for your help and if you donated any supplies to the class.
We are eternally grateful for all of the support and care that all of you give LEW.
That's all for now.
All the best,
Jessy
