Dear Unicorn Families!
We
started 2018 by jumping right in. We welcomed a new friend to the room and the
children are working to make him feel right at home. I heard many stories over the week about all
the places you went and exciting adventures you had. The children were ready to come back and work
hard on being kind, respectful, responsible and safe. We reviewed what we have learned so far this
year and we are adding to the discussion by talking about Civil Rights Day and
what that means as well. It is always
interesting to hear how a 6 or 7 hear old sees what the world is/was like.
Besides
speaking about Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks and the civil
rights movement, we are also finishing up our unit on maps and traditions. We will start our unit on objects in space
next week and return to garden observations as well, now that our garden is
starting to grow. We began working on
how to stories as the beginning of our non-fiction unit. This is where the children are the expert and
they teach someone how to “make a sandwich” or “what you need to snow ski.” In reading we are working on using blends in
short vowel words and making sure we are reading all of the letters in a
word. As we continue to work on
comprehension strategies, inferring is the next topic we will begin. We will start with using inferring in poetry
and then move to using the strategy in books.
Library
day is still on Wednesdays. We had lots
of missing books this week. If you are unsure of what books your child has out
and you did not get the letter from Mrs. Kupper, please email her at pkupper@cfsd16.org. There
is NO school on Monday, January 15th for Civil Rights Day. There is NO early release this Thursday, our
day will end at 3 pm.
Enjoy the three-day weekend!
Mrs.
Berk
