We had a great time today at our in house field trip High Touch, High Tech! As "scientists" we covered all our standards for rocks and minerals. We used our senses to observe and group rocks by physical attributes such as large and small, smooth and rough, dark and light, and transparent and opaque. We also used our senses to observe the physical attributes of soil such as texture, smell, color, particle and grain. The children really enjoyed digging in the two kinds of sand (one from Hawaii and one from Georgia) to find their own rocks and identify them as well as classify them into catagories. Each student will bring home their bag of rocks and a certificate of participation. Ask your child about their time as "geologists" and what they learned.
In Math we are almost finished with our third chapter. We are working on numbers 0-5 using one to one correspondence as well as comparing sets with words such as fewer, more, greater, less than and equal. Writing numbers seems to be very hard for them, and we are seeing a lot of backwards numbers which is very common, but we need your help with this skill. Please practice using the Zaner-Bloser handwriting sheets we passed out at Open House. Next we will be estimating quantities using five and ten as a benchmark. (e.g. 9 is one five and four more. It is closer to ten, which can be represented as one ten, or two fives, than it is to five.)
This week's theme is Colors. Refer to the behavior sheet for the color of the day to wear if possible. Friday we will do an experiment with food coloring and mixing primary and secondary colors. Keep collecting those cardboard tubes for our log cabin. Thank you for all you do!
