Colonial Town Square
JUST A REMINDER- Monday is "Donate While You Dine" at Culvers- Come have dinner at Culvers and support Forest View on Monday April 29th from 5 to 8pm. 10% of all sales is donated directly to our school. I will be serving from 7 to 8:00. I would love to see you!
Literacy- The kids LOVED traveling back in time to learn about the Colonial times this . It was a great experience for the kids to connect everything that we have been learning in literacy. At the town square students met:
*a baker that worked with the students to form rolls with dough
*a dressmaker that worked with the students to hem a skirt
*a farmer that worked with the kids to shell corn
*a spinner that showed the students how to turn wool into yarn
*a weaver that worked with the kids to make
cloth
*a bricklayer that made a wall with the kids
*a colonial women that worked with the kids to wash clothes using a wash basin
*a colonial women that worked with the kids to write letters using a feather and ink
*a carpenter that let the students drill holes into a board using a hand drill
*a mason that demonstrated heating horse shoes and forming them using his tools
*a baby calf
Scroll to the bottom of the newsletter to see many more pictures.
Next week we will begin a new unit called "Taking Care of the Earth". I would love to turn our science table into a creation station where students can reuse things to make something new. If you have toilet paper rolls/paper towel rolls, newspaper, scrap paper, ribbon, buttons, boxes, etc that you would like to contribute to our station please send them in Monday. I will have this set up for the next few weeks.
Skills- In skills we learning how to write the capital letters to the alphabet using the correct writing strokes. We learned the tricky words: "word" and "when". We are using all of the knowledge we have learned this year and are now applying it to our reading and writing. The kids are really on a roll!!
Math- In math we wrapped up our unit on addition and were introduced to subtraction. We will not stop learning and practicing addition. It will be an ongoing skill that we will keep working on. The big idea in this unit is for students to form subtaction stories and write them using symbols. Students will also master subtraction fluency within 5. Today the students were introduced to subtraction using symbols. Students will learn several different strategies to help them solve subtraction equations.
Upcoming events:
*Monday, April 29- Mobile Dentist
*Monday, April 29- Culvers Family Night 5:00-8:00
*Monday, May 27- Memorial Day- No Schoool
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you for everything you do!
Jessica
