Week of February 4 to February 11

This week's blog covers academics, social emotional, and projects.

Academics
In Language Arts, we have entered into the orange books. We are making our way into longer reading books and free writing. Your child should be able to read you a book of his/her favorite at home. During math, we have reduced our class size and are working rigorously on reading graphs, word problems, and our subtration/addition facts. They are also working on counting by 5s. We were unable to do our science project this Monday because of the rain and will make it up next week.

Social Emotional
We have been diving into choices and consequences. Each child gets the opportunity to understand that he or she has the power to make a choice. At the same time, they are learning that each choice has a consequence. If they break a rule of the class, they choose an appropriate consequence for their choice. We will usually work on it together. During our class meeting this week, we solved a problem. That problem was taking other's things when we find them. They decided that the item should be returned and all involved should tell the truth. We will be addressing more items in our agenda box tomorrow.


Projects
The children voted on baking cakes! They also voted on giving them to sick children in Children's Hospital. We have been writing letters home asking for the $5 it will take to buy supplies and transportation costs. Unfortunately, I have called the Children's Hospital and they do not have visitation for children. So, I will have to break it to the class. I have contacted Volunteer San Diego for more options on who we can serve with our baking. If you have ideas or connections, please call or e-mail.

Thanks so much for reading this.
Meital

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