It's been a minute since I have made an official blog post--we have one week and then it's Spring Break (April 5 -9). Here are are what's happening in our class:
- STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) night this Wednesday, March 31 from 6:30-7:30 on the grass area near the SUU Geoscience building. This is a free event for parents and students. These are a great opportunity for extra learning and fun--I have seen the other schools STEAM events that they seem to be "not to be missed" activity.
- Kindergarten registration closes on March 31--if you have a kindergarten student please make sure they are registered by that date. That early registration really helps with classes for next year.
- On April 16 our school will be having a Time Capsule celebration on Friday April 16. Please have your child wear their East Elementary t-shirt that day. We will have cupcakes or a cookie, open the time capsule that was placed 20 years ago and celebrate 70 years of EAST elementary's existence! We'll also be doing some activities before hand like learning the school song and making a tile about "why East is great" for an art display.
- Scholastic book orders will come home tomorrow--They will be due Friday April 2 before we leave for Spring break. Please use the online code and order that way if desired.
- Thanks to those that have sent extra masks after my pleas of making sure your child still has a mask for school. Those have helped and I have already probably handed out 10 of those masks since they came in last week. We can stick it out!! Thanks so much for your help there and encouraging wearing masks in school. That's how we have been able to stay open :)
- If you are out and about and could donate some clorox or disinfecting wipes I'd appreciate that. At the beginning of the year when I asked for that donation they were hard to find. I am noticing that when I go to the store now they are usually stocked on the shelves. If you could donate some for our class that would be helpful as we use those a lot (even on non-COVID years).
- In our learning in math we learning about comparing numbers. We first compared by finding the number that was "greater than" then we compared and found the number "less than" and now we are comparing numbers using symbols (>,<,=). We learned that when we compare numbers we first look at the tens and then if necessary we look at the ones place.
- In reading we started Unit 6 and are learning more ways to spell sounds. We have learned about the "tricky" spelling and sound 'g' and /j/ and 'c' and /s/. We have learned that these sounds both have a soft and hard sound and that when we are reading we try the "hard" sound first and then if the word does not make sense we switch to the soft sound (ex. gem --first try /g/ as in goat and when that doesn't make sense switch to the /j/ sound). We will be writing another descriptive paragraph starting this week after we finish our Unit on Astronomy. Students will describe "outer space". We have also started a new reader called "Grace" and have read the first three stories. These stories follow Grace and her family on their farm.
I think that's it--if I have forgotten something I will send a REMIND.
I hope that you all have a nice, relaxing Spring Break!
Happy Reading,
Mrs. Armstrong
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