Blog March 25, Thursday

Happy Spring. It is hard to believe spring break is around the corner . Strawberry Festival will be here before we know it! Please make sure to sign-up to work for the festival. It is very fun. You will also get to know people in our community.
As most of you know I was gone at the beginning of the week. I went to see my sick Dad in Florida along with my five brothers and my sister. The last time we were altogether was over five years ago. The weather was nice and it was wonderful to see my family, but I am very happy to be back on Virginia soil.
Lynn reported the kids were wonderful. They had lots of fun learning about and reading Dr. Seuss books. Lynn read Green Eggs and Ham with the class on Monday . They graphed food they liked and disliked. They also made green eggs and ham. It was a big hit! Lynn also reviewed some high frequency words with the kids (am, and, in, like, the). They had to match the words up and then write sentences with the words. On Monday afternoon the kids had computers.
Tuesday was a very busy day. The children worked on addition problems. Using buttons with an addition mat, with a set of number cards 1-9 they solved the problems.. Next week the children will record their number sentences. After spring break we will start to work on subtraction problems. The children also continued working with Dr Seuss. They read The Cat in the Hat. They played a rhyming game and completed a rhyming activity. In music Kim introduced the classic “Peter and the Wolf” by Sergei Prokofiev. The children listened to the music, discussed the characters and the instruments that were in the story. Thanks Julie for letting the kids do their play over.
Wednesday in math the children worked on estimating. With pom-poms the children had to estimate how many pom-poms would fit inside a picture of a lion or lamb. After they made an educated guess they would check their guess to see how close they estimated. This is a very difficult skill.
With the arrival of spring the kids surprised me with a beautiful masterpiece painted on my front window. They made all kinds of bugs and flowers with fun foam and hung them on the window. I love it!!
Thursday and Friday will be crazy as always. Thursday, as you know, is a day filled with specials. Cherry is making very cool strawberry puppet heads with the kids. I can't wait to see them.
Friday we will be working on our rock unit! Thank you Yutika for coming up with this great idea. We are going to weigh and measure them as well as decorate and name our pet rocks this week. Next week we will write a story about them.
Please remember Wednesday the 31st is not a pizza or lunch a month day. Please make sure you pack a lunch for your child.
Spring break is Friday-!Friday April 2-9th. Enjoy your week!