A look at last week, and a look a head to this week!

I was so upset that I my Dr. said I needed to take Friday off and REST...but she was right.  I feel SO much better than I did all last week, my fever is gone and I can actually breathe and have a voice!!!  I am excited about all of the learning I have planned for this upcoming week!

MATH - - In math we started Math Workshops last week, and this week we will continue working on place value and money combinations to $1.00.  Did your child tell you about some of the different games that we have been learning how to play?  Don't forget about iXL...this is a great resource your child can be using at home!

SCIENCE --  We are still working in our unit Force and Motion.  The kids have been busy working and creating different experiments, and writing up their results and the overall process in Lab Reports (our current writing unit).  This Friday they will work in groups to create a house... then we will use some FORCE (hair dryer) to see if the house will remain standing!

READING - - Last week we started our Non-Fiction unit.  We will take some time this week to take a closer look at what nonfiction books have in common, and how readers LEARN from and USE things like an index,  graphs/pictures, table of contents etc.

HANDWRITING - - We started learning how to write in cursive last week.  This is a slow process.  We are taking our time to learning how to form the different letters, and also have to connect letters.  The kids are SO excited!!!

Have a great rest of the weekend!