April Showers

Hey its now April and school will soon be over!
This month we will be learning about the types of clouds and different kinds of flowers.
Each week we will talk about how different types of clouds are formed and we will explore outside to look at these types of clouds (as long April does not rain on us). Also, we will talk about different types of flowers and we will also plant our own flowers. Each student will be responsible for the care of their own flower, they will have to water it and record its growth.

For parents: there will a parent teacher conference the week of April 13th to the 17th.

March: Sports Month

The month of March is fast approaching, just to keep you posted, like I said we will focus this month on sports. Since March has four weeks in it we will talk about four different sports.  Two of the sports will be individually played sports and the other two will be on team sports.  The first week we will talk about a team sport.  We will learn all about soccer, we will learn how it is played and I will turn the lessons for each subject that week into some aspect of soccer.  The second week we will learn about an individual sport, it will be golf.  We will learn about miniature and regular golf.  The third we will go back to a team sport:  baseball/softball. We will learn about different teams and in math we will learn how to average statistics for baseball players.  The last week in March we will learn about tennis, it is mainly looked at as an individual sport but we will also talk about how it is played with using pairs.  The last two days in March (since there is a few extra days) we will talk about any sport the class chooses from.  

I want to make sure that no matter what sport the class learns about they get out and stay active. 

February Newsletter for the Parents

Dear Parents,

The month of February is Nutritional month, we will learn about the new food pyramid and all of the food groups. My plan for the month is that each week we would focus on a different food group. The first week we are going to focus on the grain/bread food group. We will be reading stories about the origin of bread. We will also be working on grams and how to measure using a scale, we will use grains for rice to measure with. The second week of February is going to be focused on fruit. We will discuss the variety of fruit and what makes fruit a fruit rather than a vegetable. Third week we will talk about all the varieties of vegetables: the strange and the familiar kinds. I will be passing out a permission slip for all of you to sign to allow your child to taste different kinds of vegetables (look for the permission slip about the 5th of February). The fourth week we will focus on the meat and dairy group. We will learn about where the different meat and dairy products come from and which animal it comes from.

Just for a heads up, March will be sports month. We will learn about all the different types of sports and how to play them.