March 22nd

This week we are studying Leo Lionni books. Today we read "Inch by Inch". After making a rectangular garden out of links, we estimated and measured how many medium, large and small worm cutouts it would take to fill the garden. We noticed that the smaller the worm was, the larger the number turned out to be. Tomorrow we will use worm clipart to measure things. Other Leo Lionni books include: Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse, It's Mine, Frederick, The extraordinary egg,  Cornelus, The Alphabet Tree, A color of his own, Nicholas where have you been, Mr. McMouse, and Fish is Fish.

In math we are comparing attributes of two shapes. How many ways are these shapes the same or different? Examples include: how many corners or sides, straight lines/ curved lines, size/color of shape and lines. We also are using pattern blocks (hexagons, trapezoid, triangles, etc.) to fill in a shape.

The kids are using author's language to make their own books. Using Leo Lionni's "A color of his own". They are completing their own sentences and making illustrations. Some students are creating their own books at home and bringing them in to share.

Class photo this Thursday, March 24th
Send in choice of pose for individual photo

No School on Friday- Vacation Day:)
April 1st- teacher workday
April 8th- early release
April 18th-22nd Spring Break

Scholastic Book Order Due Thursday, March 24th
Class Wish List
See Saw- #67 April CD/library
                #50 Night before Mother's Day (2 copies)
                #51 Pigs to rescue (2 copies)
                #69 Sitting duck (2 copies)
                #43 Looking for Easter (2 copies)
                #25 Great Estimations
                #48 My Hippo has hiccups bk/cd
Firefly- #40 Happy Easter Mouse (3 copies)
              We're going on book hunt (4 bk pk) $9
               Whoosh went wind (4bk pk) $12
               Mother's day surprise (4bk pk) $9
Watch for parent conference sign up list- coming soon.
Also- sign up list for spring scavenger supply list
Curriculum:

IB Planner:Rhyme Time (expressing ourselves)
Writing: All Capital Letters, lower case letters c, s,
Letters and Sounds: all letters, capital and lowercase
Sight Words: I, like, my, see, the, can, am, we, will, go, to, he, she, went, is, in, on, have, said, love, here, are, they, look
Shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, trapezoid, hexagon, rhombus, octagon, cube, sphere
Math Concepts: graphing, story problems, writing numbers 1-30, sorting, making shapes, modeling numbers, tally marks, sharing equally, using the number line.
Writer's Workshop: sounding out words and writing the Kindergarten way, pictures match the sentences, label pictures, Start with a capital letter only! Use spaces and periods. Spell sight words correctly.
Reader's Workshop: Take a picture walk; Look for patterns. Use the pictures to help give you clues. Look at the first letter in the word you don't know. Make the sound. Point to each word as you read. Remember the title.
IB terms: respect, risk-taker, tolerance, empathy, caring, appreciation, principled, cooperation