Mid - Week Review

Life is coming at you fast and furious, I understand that fact! I am a parent just like you. The after school meetings, open houses, evening meetings, cooking dinner, cleaning house, and responsibilities of the day to day wear me out as much as they do you. I appreciate you taking the time to assist your child with homework, reading skills, and sight word recognition. Anything you do at home is above and beyond what we have done here at school already. I am thankful for your support! It is not an accident that I am able to teach this great group of children. It is because of your hard work and dedication that they have come to the place where they are today!

The ants are confused and ready for release. I caught my ants for the ant farm vs. buying them from the company who sells ants. They have been trying to get out the top more than they have been digging in the gel. Another teacher bought the ants and they dug happily content to do what ants do best. However, this brought up a wonderful conversation dealing with capturing wild animals and trying to make them tame for pets. The consensus was we need to let the unhappy ants go and catch some happy ones. I do not think they got the point! :o)

We started our study of the five senses. The children learned yesterday that sounds traveled like waves and caused the inner ear to vibrate which in turn sends a message to the brain. It just so happened I had a life like pop up book about the human body that actually allowed me to pull a tab and it showed the ear "vibrate"! It was very cool for the children to see it in action. We played sound games and even went outside to list the sounds we heard.

In math, we are continuing our study of subtraction using manipulatives and
pictures to show subtraction. If you missed the Math Information Night on September 16th, here is the information.

1. The Next Generation Sunshine State Standards were reviewed.
2. A tour of Go Math! website was done.
https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/ePC/start.do
3. If you have difficulty with this link, go to www.thinkcentral.com, click on mathematics, then click on Go Math! Florida. This will take you to the login page.

Your child's login is his/her student number.(email me if you need this #)
Password is YYYYMMDD(his/her birthday).


Book fair is this week. You are welcome to come in and check out the fair with your child!
Here are our scheduled times:
Tuesday, Thursday: Book Fair Browse 12:40-1:00
Wednesday: Book Fair Browse 10:30-10:45
If you are unable to make those exact times, contact me and we can arrange something that works better for you!

Have a great day!