Wednesday, March 24, 2010

What Goes Around Comes Around

This week we began our fifth planner---What Goes Around Comes Around. This planner's central idea is that all living things have life cycles.

The first cycle we are talking about is the life cycle of a butterfly. We will be reading many factual books about butterflies, labeling the parts of a butterfly, creating a butterfly life cycle, ordering events of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and writing about butterflies.
In math we are focusing on symmetry and measurement.
This week's sight words are would, could, take and live.

Next week we will continue the planner with a focus on ants. We will read fiction and nonfiction books about ants (icluding Two Bad Ants and Ant Cities), label an ant's body parts, discuss the life cycle of an ant, make our own room for Two Bad Ants and make our own Ant City.
In math we will focus on patterns and graphing.
Next week's sight words are about, little, and their.

REMINDERS:
Monday is group picture day. Kindergarten usually take their pictures first, so please be here on time.
Thursday, April 1st is an early dismissal day.
Friday, April 2nd---NO SCHOOL!!!