Springtime in the Forest and the Classroom!
What a magical time to walk in the forest and see spring ephemerals popping up everywhere! Our class took a trip into the woods on Friday, and the students were bursting with excitement at all the beauty around them. With the warmer weather on its way, we’ll be spending more time outdoors—please remember to check your child for ticks each day.
We also spent time in our school garden, planting seeds that we’ll care for indoors until they’re ready to thrive outside. I’m so excited to get our garden growing this year!
Literacy & Writing
Students continue to work hard in Literacy, and we hope you're seeing the same incredible growth at home that we’re seeing here at school. We’ve got some real reading machines in our classroom!
In Writing, we’ve begun our final mini-unit on Poetry. This is always a fun and creative time as students express their interests and imagination through their poems.
Math Adventures
In Kindergarten, students have been revisiting story problems—identifying what the problem is asking, representing it with drawings or objects, and solving it. They’re also building fluency within 5 using fun games focused on addition and subtraction.
Our first graders are continuing to explore addition and subtraction using place value and base ten blocks. They’re learning to break numbers into tens and ones to help solve double-digit problems. With base ten blocks, they can physically combine or separate tens and ones to find solutions. At home, you can support this by grouping everyday items into tens, counting together, and discussing how numbers are made—it's a great way to reinforce these concepts in a fun, hands-on way!
A shout out to all who were able to come to our Art/Music Performance! What a wonderful turnout we had on a beautiful evening in Underhill!
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