News for April 21
Well this was the first of two short (4 day) weeks. As always, there were a lot of things going on in Room 101.
At the beginning of the week, we talked about the Jewish holiday of Passover. The children learned about the celebration dinner called a seder and unleavened bread called matzah and had a chance to try some matzah at the snack table. We read a book called The Matzah Man, which is based on the classic fairy tale, The Gingerbread Man. It has a repeating phrase that the students loved to recite along at various points in the story:
Hot from the oven, I jumped and I ran,
So clever and quick, I'm the Matzoh Man!
We also talked about the Easter Holiday. The students heard the story The Easter Egg, which is a story about rabbits making all different kinds of decorated eggs for a chance to help the Easter Bunny. As usual, more information about the books we read in class can be found at our sister blog at:
As a link to the Easter book we read, the students had a chance to learn about and examine branches of pussy willows. The soft, furry catkins of this tree appear before the leaves and flowers and is considered to be one of the first signs of spring. It was wonderful to hear the children ask for the magnifying glasses to look at them. They are learning to use tools they are familiar with to help them learn.
Our read along activity this week was poem called "Little Bunny". The students learned the words by heart which helps them to read the written words. They also learned some actions to do as they recite the poem. A copy of the words to this poem was sent home with your child on Thursday.
In math, the students continued to practise and apply their counting strategies. They had to follow instructions and fill a plastic Easter egg with a certain number of small chocolate eggs. The class is now skip counting to 140 by tens and to 10 by two's.
Luckily the weather cooperated this week and the children were happy to play outside and use the balls, hoops and bikes.
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