Happy April! Book Fair, Fractions, Generation Zero, Kites, and Guidance Lesson

This week, we celebrated Book Fair week. I remember as a kid loving when the Book Fair came to school. To me, it was like the best week ever at school. So many cool books in one location! We went as a class on Tuesday to preview and the students had the chance all week go buy books. As the math teacher, it made me so proud to see they were able to count their dollars and coins in order to purchase their books.

We wrapped up our fraction lessons this week. We drew fractions, colored fractions, wrote out fractions with numbers and wrote out fractions with words.

We practiced our EN, ON, and UN blends this week and did our weekly writing in our VLA journals. We have been taking advantage of the beautiful weather lately by going outside and practicing our sight words with chalk on the sidewalk. If you can donate some more chalk to the class, that would be greatly appreciated!

In Mrs. Skalaban’s class, the kiddos wrote a how-to paper. They wrote a “how-to fly a kite.” Mrs. Skalaban took the kids outside and they did the whole process step-by-step so the kids could see to help them write about it.

We had our last lesson of Generation Zero this week with Mrs. Sarah. She taught it the differences between what goes to compost, recycle, and landfill. Ask your child to sing you the songs she taught them on Thursday.

Mrs. Cardosa did a guidance lesson on complimenting friends this week. She had a yarn ball and they had to roll it to a friend sitting in the circle. To person they rolled it to, they had to pay a compliment to them. At the end of the lesson, the yarn got really crazy and tangled. I guess that was expected with 42 compliments being paid. Some compliments that kids had were:

I like your shirt

I like your shoes

I like your curls

I like that you are always quiet and listening

I think that you’re funny

I think you are nice

Please remember that we do not have school on Friday because it is Good Friday.

I just realized that on their April calendar I typed that computer lab and library were on Tuesdays. Please excuse me for getting my days mixed. There’s just so much rescheduling going on lately that I’m starting to lose my mind :-)  Library and computer lab will be on Thursdays.