Our first full week of school has been sprinkled with many fun events. We had a gift wrap presentation on Tuesday and got our gift wrap packets to bring home. Gift wrap orders are due on September 25th. We collected garden vegetables on Wednesday for project FEED and visited the cafeteria to clean them, cut them, and add them to the sauce our school has been making to share on Friday. We also learned about bus safety. On Thursday, we visited Shelburne Farms. We hiked the trails looking for living creatures and plants on our scavenger hunt list, then spent some time at the farmyard enjoying all the animals, including the chicken parade. Today we had our first Hands On Nature lesson of the school year. We learned all about spiders. We enjoyed a puppet show, observed some spiders in jars and then went outside to find more spiders around our school yard. We were able to identify many different kinds of spiders and learned about their bodies and how they adapt to their environment. A huge thank you to all the parents who helped with all these wonderful events this week.
We spent our math time this week solving bug problems and sharing different strategies for problem solving. We talked about the meaning of addition and subtraction and how we use addition and subtraction to solve problems. Please let me know if anyone has trouble logging onto Fastt math at home. If you can get your child onto Fastt math at least three times a week at home it will help to support their learning here in school.
We will continue doing literacy activities focused around Red Clover books again this week. We have three more books to read and then we will move on to another unit.
If there is anyone else who has a half hour a week you would like to volunteer, please let me know. I am still looking for fluency volunteers to support student learning in literacy.
Have a great weekend!
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