French bread with butter, yum!

As part of our study of France, today we tasted French bread with butter on it. It was so yummy!

Presentation on Great Britain!

Thank you Mr. Dudley on your wonderful presentation on Great Britain.

Working Together: Week of March 26 - 29

Working Together: Week of  March 26-29

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Language: . We will be introduced to digraph ck. As part of our daily phonics lessons, we are learning to omit initial sounds from a word, we are learning to think of words that contain particular  sounds, to identify the initial, medial and final sounds in words and to and learning to identify       vowel sounds.

Math: Review the Geometric shapes: Trapezoid, hexagon, parallelogram and rhombus.

Geography: This week, as part of our Europe unit study we will visit the countries of Italy, France, Great Britain and Netherlands.

Science: Discussion on birds.

Journal Writing: Birds/ Spring.

Art: African Symmetry masks / Spring Art project.

Famous Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci and Claude Monet.

Food tasting: French bread.

Special Presentation: Monday, March 26 Presentation on Great Britain by Mr. Dudley (Eden's Dad).

Special Event: Thursday, March 29- Young Author's Day.

Friday, March 30: No School- Good Friday.
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Read and Romp Fun, March 12 2018

Many thanks to all the parents who helped to make our Read and Romp event a great success. We had a lot of fun. Thank you Mrs. Wagner and Mrs. Mould!

Working Together: Week of March 12-16

Working Together: Week of  March 12-16

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Language: . We will be introduced to the long vowel sounds and how these sounds are coded. As part of our daily phonics lessons, we are learning to separate words in compound words, we are learning to manipulate sounds in words, to identify the initial, medial and final sounds in words and to and how to add a long vowel sound to  part of a word at the end and make a whole word.

Literature: Discussion on "The Tale of Johnny Town Mouse."

Math:  We will be introduced to fractions and continue our unit on greater than and less than number concepts.

Geography: We will conclude our study of Africa through our discussions about Pyramids and mummies. We will be introduced to the continent of Egypt, its animals and discuss about Ireland and St. Patrick's day.

Journal Writing: Ancient Egypt and St.Patrick's day.

Art: Art projects related to Africa.

Famous Artist: George Seurat from France and his style of Pointillism.

Food Prep: St.Patrick's day cupcake frosting.

Monday, March 12: Read and Romp: 12:30 pm.
Wednesday, March 14: All classes are invited to watch Aladin performed by Lower School.

Spring break from Monday, March 19- Friday, March 23.( No school)

Presentation on Egypt!

Presentation on Egypt

Many thanks to Mr. Abdelaziz for coming to our class and doing such a informative presentation on Egypt. We loved looking at some of the artifacts you brought to share with us. Each one of us were thrilled to get an Egyptian coin as a keepsake! Thank you Khaled and Hadi for wearing King Tut T-shirts.

Working Together: Week of March 5 -9

Working Together: Week of  March 5- 9

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Language: . Our letter sound for the week will be combination qu. As part of our daily phonics lessons, we are learning to think of words with the w sound, we are learning to identify the accents on syllables within words, to separate words in compound words and learning to recognize combination sounds and to say combination words.

Math:  We will  be introduced to  the concept of greater than and less than in numbers.

Geography: Introduce the continent of Africa and its animals. We will focus on Egypt and Kenya. At the end of the week we will start our discussion on Ancient Egypt.

Journal Writing: Africa.

Writing:  Write the letter q and write words with the combination qu.

Art: Art projects related to Africa and Read and Romp.

Food Prep: Clementine Peeling.

Friday, March 9: Presentation on Egypt by the Abdelaziz family at 8:30.

Dr.Seuss."Cat in the Hat fruit Kabaobs!

Happy Birthday, Dr.Seuss! Friday, March 2nd

Wacky Wednesday fun!