Yesterday, students brought home another upper/lower-case sentence to correct, exactly the same format as last time. Some of us are really catching on now, and some of us are still a bit confused, and that's ok. We'll keep working. Once again, the homework doesn't need to be returned, so it doesn't have a deadline, but it would be great if you could find 5 minutes to sit with your writer to help them with (or let them teach you about) when to, and not to, use capitals.
March break is just a day away. If you'd like your reader to bring home extra levelled books to last for the whole week, that's fine with me. Just let them know how many to take and I'll remind the kids to exchange them tomorrow. It's really important to keep up whatever reading routine you have established, just like brushing your teeth.
In math, we're spending just a few days on measuring temperature. We talked about some seasonal benchmarks (e.g., when it's 0 degrees, water freezes, so we get snow and ice). We read the temperature in our classroom, and then took some thermometers outside for recess and watched the temperature drop right in front of our eyes. We also used signs outside (e.g., puddles of water) to determine if the temperature would be below or above zero. While we're not reading the exact temperature on little thermometers, we are able to say, "It's between 0 and 10, and closer to 10". We know that when the mercury rises, the temperature is getting warmer, and vice versa. When you're outside in the next couple weeks, ask your child to guess if it's above or below 0 degrees just based on signs that they see outside!
In science, we talked about how the sun is a major source of energy. We made a list of things we already know about the sun, for example, the sun is a star, the sun keeps us warm, the sun gives us light. We prepared a little sun experiment and we'll see the results after the break!!
Our second last sound is "è" (e accent grave) and ê (e accent circonflex). We talked about it being a "lazy" e sound, compared to é and regular e. Think of the e in the word "dress". There are actually 5 ways to make this sound, and we found examples of each, as shown in the pictures below. There's a lot to remember here, but the happy thing is that all of these combos make the same sound.
