As-salamu Alaikum Wa
Dear Parents,
Here are some updates:
We will be learning about bugs in
Spring. During this unit, we will be reading books by the famous author, Eric
Carle, and will do activities that will go along with the books. We started our week by learning about
ladybugs in Science and continued to work on different literacy and numeric activities
on ladybugs during the week. Sk2 loved those hands-on and fun learning
activities.
Language Arts:
The progress of this book can be
assessed on the skills checklist below:
- Recognizes the seventh group of sounds: qu, ou, oi, ue,
er, ar.
- Can blend regular words with this group of sounds.
- For example: round, brown, queen, butter, farmer, boil,
shout.
Writing:
- Can write the seventh group of sounds:qu, ou, oi, ue,
er, ar.
- Can also write regular words using these sounds, such
as: out, spoil, star, dark, later, quick, quit, count.
- Understands that many sounds have more than one way of
being written.
- For example: <oi>, <oy> (boil, boy),
<ou>, <ow> (out, owl), <er>, <ir>, <
- Can begin to choose between <er>, <ir> and
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We read “The Grouchy Lady Bug” by Eric Carle to go along with our “Bugs in
Spring” theme. It is such a fun book and students absolutely loved it.
Writing:
After reading a book, we wrote what makes us grouchy and we will attach it to our ladybug craft along with a picture of each student making a grouchy face.
Literacy Tips:
- Read for 20 minutes with your child everyday.
- Please help your child to read the book from their reading bag daily.
- Go to starfalls.com and readingbears.org to enhance your child’s reading skills.
Math:
We continued
to learn how to add using addition strategies like drawing pictures and counting
fingers in order to write an addition sentence.
We made a
“Ladybug addition booklet “ and used black circles as manipulative to add the
spots on our ladybug. Sk2 did an excellent job learning how to add and make our
friend ladybug happy by putting missing spots on her.
Math tips:
·
Have
your child draw pictures on a calendar to record each day’s weather. At the end
of the month, make a picture graph showing how many sunny days, rainy days, and
cloudy days were there in that month.
·
Have
your children manipulate objects to figure out basic concepts in Math. For
addition, they could add one, two, or more blocks to a pile of blocks and then
tell you how many blocks are in the pile.
·
Play
board games like Chutes & Ladders, Sorry!, Dominoes, etc. as they promote
the development of counting skills, understandings of patterns, and numeral
recognition.
Science:
·
We watched a very interesting and educational video
about ladybugs, and then we made an anchor chart together about it.
·
We made the life cycle of a Ladybug through a
cut-and-paste activity. Please check the wonderful work by SK2, Masha-Allah!
Islamic Studies:
We read the story of “Prophet Hud
and the storm” and discussed the theme of the story. We also continued to pray
Jummah prayer in class. Great job SK2!
Arts:
To go along with our Ladybug theme,
we made a Ladybug Craft. Also, we made ladybugs using strawberries,
blueberries, and raisins. Sk2 ate it afterwards, yummy!
Student of the month
The theme for the month of April was “Homework completion and class participation”
We acknowledged many students in the class. Congratulations to all of you for being the “Students of the month” for the month of April, Mash-Allah.
The theme for the month of May will be “Initiative / goal setting to improve work and self-regulation.”
Jazakumullahu-khaira for your co-operation and support!
