We will continue to have show practice each afternoon. The children seem to enjoy learning all our songs and routines. This coming week, students will be chosen for some special parts in the show and we will continue to practice the dance moves for our class songs. Our group will perform on the stage in the cafeteria on May 24th in the afternoon. I believe the start time will be at 1:45 and this will be confirmed by our director Mrs. Joyce and a note will be sent home soon.
In Reading the students will wrap up the letter Vv and move on to the letter Qq, the last letter in our current workbook. The workbook should go home by the end of the week so you can see what your child has been up to in school. I would recommend keeping the book. Have your child practice reading stories and words in the books to you for extra practice.
We will move on to Topic 11in Math, Decomposing Numbers 11-19. We had been adding or drawing counters to reach these teen numbers and writing number sentences to record the parts filled in our ten frames. Next we will start with a whole number, look for missing parts (19=10+?) and review addition and subtraction number sentences in the process. This will be our last topic focusing heavily on addition and subtraction this year.
In Science we were able to begin a study of plants. We covered plant parts and the children examined some real flowers to find the parts we had discussed. We will continue our study of plants during the next week or two. The children will learn out seeds, plant life cycles, resources from and uses for plants, and they will plant their own seeds or flowers as well.