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Since our holiday break, we’ve been excited about learning a variety of things.

We studied about seasonal changes and winter, famous Americans, Community Helpers, and bears. We are looking forward to reading fiction and non-fiction books about bears. The most fun will be performing some of our favorite bear songs for our parents in March.

Our One Hundredth Day of School celebration was amazing! One of the favorite activities was our number hunt. The children looked for numerals around the room and recorded them on a record sheet.

We have started our “Book Bag” reading program. Throughout the week, each student reads an emerging literacy book with his/her teacher.  The child then brings the book home and reads it to his/her parents.  A book and activity packet are sent home in a "Book Bag" envelope every Friday and returned on Monday.   Each book bag contains a phonemic awareness activity and an optional “Just For Fun” activity. These activities are all user friendly and family oriented.

In addition to these phonemic awareness activities, our language arts focus is on oral language activities which develop and enrich vocabulary and written activities which connect meaning to print. Other reading activities will include individual and guided reading and/or focused phonics instruction in groups when appropriate, daily message, news of the day, interactive charts, and choral speaking of poetry and rhymes. Shared reading activities include big, small, poetry, and predictable books. Journal writing activities will focus on leaving spaces between words, end punctuation, planning for writing, and adding details to written work. Other writing activities will focus on writing first and last names with one capital and the rest lower case letters.

Our math program continues to emphasize numeral words from zero to ten, patterning, adding and subtracting, coin recognition and value, and measurement activities using non-standard units. Measurement activities also include comparison between smaller and larger, more and less, and heavier and lighter objects. We will review ordinal numbers to ten, numeral recognition from 0-31+, estimating and counting objects from 0-31+ and writing these numerals, sequencing numerals to 20, counting backwards from 20, and counting on to 10. Estimation activities, graphing, and problem solving (addition and subtraction) are also a part of our spring program. Math related big books are another important part of our curriculum.

Our science units for spring will focus on how, why, and what if questions within the following units of study: five senses, seasonal changes, day and night, and life cycles of animals and insects.

Our Famous American unit of study in social studies highlights these famous Americans:  George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our very special activity this quarter will be on March 7 when we have Our Teddy Bear Picnic. The children will sing some teddy bear songs and enjoy picnicking with their families. Best of all, no ants will bother us this time of year!

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Lynn Ramsburg and Lisa Ray