Week 30- March 25-29

Happy Sunday Families! We had a busy and fun week back after break. Is it just me or did the kiddos grow in that week?!

Happy Birthday Ezra!

Happy Birthday Emily!

 Here's a look at the upcoming week:

Spalding: We will continue to review all phonograms while adding the remainder of our learned phonograms to homework. Our spelling words this week will be: street, say, hand, come, ring, live (“You live in a house."), live ("The TV show is live."), hill, late let. 

Sight Words: This week we will review list 7.

Literature: This week we will explore A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh. We will learn about A.A. Milne’s as an author and his inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh. We will explore three different stories ,"We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh, and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin,” and "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place,” and "In Which a House is Built in Pooh Corner for Eeyore."  We will speak to the virtues represented, explore Pooh’s character traits, and find examples of friendship in the story. Our poem is Peter Piper.

Math: This week students will be reviewing both addition and subtraction together.  We will explore fact families which include addition and subtraction equations.  Students will also be introduced to simple story problems.

History and Geography: We will wrap up our unit on the continent of Asia this week. We will learn more about Asian tigers! Students will be treated with watching the movie “Born in China” which follows the stories of 3 adorable Asian animals. Later in the week, we will begin learning all about the continent of Africa. Students will learn that the Sahara Desert is in Africa as well as the Savanna Grasslands. We will explore more about the Eyo Festival, which is a traditional masquerade in Nigeria. Students will get to make their own African masquerade masks.