We will have our Valentine's parties on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. (Thank you to the Brainsby, Dose, and Linneman families for all of your hard work planning and preparing the parties!) We will hand out Valentine's in our classroom on the days of our parties. If you decide to hand out Valentine's day cards, please bring enough for everyone in the entire class. We have twenty students in the class. Please have your child write his/her name in the "From" section, and on the "To" section, please write "a friend." That makes it much easier to pass them out when they are not assigned to a certain friend! :) If you would like, you can include a small sticker, eraser, etc. to the valentine- although this is not necessary.
We will have a special Ash Wednesday chapel on Wednesday, February 13th at 8:10. Please have your child arrive at school no later than 8:00 on this day. Thank you!
There is no school Friday, February 15th and Monday, February 18th.
We had a great day in school!
Check out what we did today!
We started the day by exercising our fine motor skills by cutting hearts out of construction paper. We worked together to learn how to fold the paper in half and make it into a heart. The children who could cut the hearts really well helped the other children who were struggling to cut the hearts. The children are practicing positive social skills!
We then used the hearts we cut out for our marble painting. We rolled a marble in paint, and then rolled the painted marble all over our heart. It was fun!
During Jesus time, we learned what Lent is. We learned that Jesus went through a lot of pain and died to save us from our sins. We also learned that He did not stay dead! He rose again! We thanked Jesus for loving us so much that He died and rose again for us!
We practiced using non-standard units of measurements as we used Valentine hearts to measure various classroom items. Using non-standard units of measurement is important because in order to help children learn accurate measuring skills, we start measuring items using something children already know. (Hands, yarn, Valentine hearts) From there, the children will build the foundation for further measurement learning!
We also practiced our writing skills as we wrote the how many hearts long the different items were.
We sorted Valentine conversation hearts by color. We then counted how many hearts were in each group. The children are practicing one to one correspondence in this activity. One to one correspondence is when one number name is given to one item. This foundational math skill allows the children to accurately count and compare numbers.
We sorted conversation hearts by color and then graphed the different colors. We compared the graph to determine which color had the most and which color had the least. Sorting and comparing are foundational math skills! Graphs help children learn how to answer a question, organize information, and create an accurate representation for collected information.
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