Families,

The kids really enjoyed planting flowers last week. We discussed and observed different types of flowers. During snack, we read a book called Zinnia's Flower Garden. Later, we talked about the things a flower or a seed needs to live.

Here is a list of some of the other activities that we have been doing in class:

Animated Alphabet:
Sheriff Shadrack /sh/
Drawing "sheep"
Whirling Irving /ur/ /ir/ /er/
Drawing "girl"

Math:
Graphing
Tallying
Addition
Counting
Patterns
Number Recognition

Books:
Zinnia's Flower Garden by Monica Wellington
Pie in the Sky by Lois Ehlert
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Charlie Needs a Cloak by Tommie dePaola

Science/Social Studies:
Bullying, Weather, Spring, Flowers
Mrs. Jennings discussed the importance of following directions. She read a book called Listen Buddy.

Mrs. Torneden

Families,

Thank you so much for the seeds! We are going to have a variety of seeds to plant!

Animated Alphabet:
Grouch Owl /ow/
Drawing "Owl"
Abe the Skating Hare /ai/ /ay/ a_e/
Drawing "Cake"

HWT:
Review
Pencil Grasp

Math:
Measurement
Graphing
Shapes
Counting by 5's and 10's
Addition
Subraction
Estimation

Science/Socials Studies:
Spring, Flowers, Weather, Owls, Rabbits, and Hares

Books:
Is Your Mama A Llama? by Deborah Guarino
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert
Good-Night, Owl! by Pat Hutchins
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Buzz Bumble to the Rescue by Lynn E. Hazen

Mrs. Torneden

Homework!

Families,

I would like for the students to start locating and collecting sight words found in environmental print. If your child finds a cereal box, magazine page, letter, or parcel of junk mail that contains a sight word, please send it to school.

The following words are some of the sight words we have been working on at school:

and

the

like

come

here

on

of

is

have

my

this

look

you

it

look

Thanks,
Mrs. Torneden