April 12, 2024

Hello families,

This week our class went outside to enjoy the spring weather for a sit spot as well as do a garden clean up! I appreciate how students took time to care for their place and nature.

We started a new artist study of Vincent van Gogh and are creating art inspired by his famous sunflowers.

In art with Ms. Davies students learned how to wet felt. We are creating a collaborative art piece with Ms. Romanko's class that ties to our Social and Science curriculum.

In mathematics students learned how to subtract on a open number line and using base tens. We also did a subtraction check- in. A quick way to support your child in subtraction is asking them to count backwards by 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s, and 25s (if you are in grade 2!).

We completed our April calendar. Students were asked to write down the words to represent each day's number. Knowing how to spell the words is just as important as writing the digits!

In writing we continued implementing the M.I.N.T.S. capitalization rules into our work.

We also learned the spelling patterns "ed", "es", and "ai/ay" and completed the corresponding word sorts.

Thank you for practicing the skills we are working on at school with your child at home. In literacy I am noticing an improvement in student's sight word decoding (reading) and encoding (writing)!

Words of the Week

little

work

know

place

year

live

back

give

most

Spicy

understand

again

would

In Science we continued exploring Earth systems. This week we learned about the different bodies of water and how they support life, and our solar system.