National Children Dental Health Month and Graphing!

We had a very fun-filled week filled with food and freezing weather. Hope everyone is staying warm inside. The kids haven’t been able to go out to recess for awhile but we’ve been accommodating and have been having indoor recess instead.

In math, we have been graphing different things like jelly beans, coins, favorite school lunch, Lucky Charms marshmallows, and next week we will be graphing eye colors, birthdays, and rainbow Goldfish.

This graphing unit is great because it incorporates both math and reading. It’s tricky already enough in English but it’s so cool to see the kids work together and help other read in Vietnamese.

We haven’t done science much this week because we focused more on health activities but we did learn about different bodies of water and determining if it is made of freshwater or saltwater.

Nước Ngọt is freshwater. Nước Mặn is saltwater.

 February is National Children’s Dental Health Month so we talked a lot of how we can take care of our teeth and what happens if we don’t. We read lots of books this week from the library and even wrote about it. Ask your child to see what they learned about the importance of taking care of your teeth! On Thursday some ladies from Sunny Hills Dentistry came to visit Summitt to teach us about teeth and even gave each child a care kit to take home. Inside included a fancy toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, and some more things. I forgot to hand them out after school on Friday to some students but they should receive theirs on Monday if they are missing one.

In Mrs. Skalaban’s class, the kids finished their George Washington writing and it is hung up inside our treehouse in the classroom. Come check out the biographies the students wrote. Please make sure you are working on writing exciting first grade sentences at home with your child! 

We will only have our corn snake for 2 more days. The students really enjoy looking at the snake. We won’t have another animal in the classroom until after Spring Break. Also, make sure you are checking your child's folder every day.