The children have blossomed into wonderful readers. They are growing more and more each day. They are learning so much in all areas. In math they are adding and subtracting single and double digits with regrouping. They are studying shapes like rhombus, parallelograms, trapezoids, ellipse, pentagon, and hexagons along with the traditional circle, square, triangle, and rectangle. They are measuring cups, pints, quarts, gallons, liters, grams, kilograms, inches, and centimeters. They are learning the face and value of a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar. They are learning about time to the hour and ½ hour on an analog and digital clock. In language arts they are learning how to read by using many different strategies like phonics, weekly spelling and sight words, using repetition, using words you know, and decoding skills. They are learning weekly indicators like main idea, compare and contrast using graphic organizers, realism and fantasy, cause and effect, sequencing, characters, setting, and classifying to name a few. In writing they are implementing what they know into each subject area. They are expected to know how to write a beginning, middle, and end of a story by the end of the year. In social studies they are learning how to be a good citizen and the world around them. In science they are learning about the earth. If you are interested in seeing our little hornets swarming just buzz on in and take a look for yourself!!
