February has arrived and the class is excited about Valentine’s Day. I have to admit Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday in the classroom. It is a time for each child to express their love and appreciation for each other. One of the fun homework assignments this month is to make a Valentine’s box for your child to collect school Valentines. Have fun with this project.
It is great to see students rising to the 5 jobs a day challenge. We are seeing more concentration and independent work throughout the class. The drive to school is the perfect opportunity to discuss with your child what jobs they plan on doing that day. Each day if they reach their 5 job goal they have the opportunity to do independent research on a topic of their choice. We have had some very inspiring research projects presented this year.
Lessons this week included an introduction to the types of sentences, converting cups, pints, quarts, and gallons in the study of liquid measurement, 2-digit multipliers problems using the popular checkerboard, looking for types of lines in the classroom, ordinal numbers and as always in-depth studies on parts of speech. Cultural lessons ranged from working with a water cycle model, examining the Fundamental Needs of Humans (a classic Montessori lesson), a close look at Nematodes, and a demonstration of fractures and folding of the Earth.
We hope you have a wonderfully peaceful weekend with your family.
Ms. Carolyn & Ms. Genie
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