With only a few days left of school, we are starting to have closure with some of our lessons and activities.
In handwriting we finished the lessons in the workbooks on upper and lower case letter formation, as well as the numeral 0-9. The children are checking their books to complete any page they may have missed. These workbooks will then we taken home to be reviewed over the summer. Next the children are learning to print their first, middle , and last names using the correct letter formation. What a challenge for some with long names and those with nicknames. Alex is learning to spell Alexander and Cate, Catherine. But Aurora is the winner with a total of 25 letters in her complete name!
This week will we be studying the last alphabet letter for our personal dictionaries. We will be searching books looking for words with the letter "x" either in the middle or at end of words to add to our individual books. Then we will look through our books to find letter pages to complete. After that, the dictionaries will be added to our Bag of Books.
The class will continue to write poetry in Writer's Workshop, as well as letters to people around campus and to our friends and relatives. How about encouraging letter writing at home over the summer. If your child writes to me over the summer, I will write back.
We are researching insects and bugs. Each student has selected a bug to research and then write factual report about that creature.
In reading we continue to "book shop" each Monday for five new "just right" books to read for the next week. We practice by ourselves, with partners, and with the teachers and visiting adults. We are learning to think about what we read and then answer questions about each story.
Math work continues with two dimenional patterns, numbers to 100 and above, and base ten (building numbers using sets of tens and ones.) We will also learn about halves and whole, solid shapes, and vertical addition.
Today is the 164th day of school and although we have selected photos and work samples for our portfolios, there is much learning that continues.
