Springtime update!

I hope you and your family are enjoying this spring weather!! The wind is cool but the sun feels so wonderful! I hope your child told you about our visit to the garden to look for signs of spring. Ask them about it! We are working on writing about our "collections" and learning to give our opinion and supporting reasons.  In math, we will be finishing our unit on 2 digit subtraction this week. I am so proud of the children for working so hard on this unit. It is challenging, but they are really catching on.  Knowing their facts makes a big difference.  I will be sending home information on Monday about their fact fluency progress. If your child is not practicing their facts PLEASE help them with this.  I don't want them to get discouraged with the math we are doing. They are wonderful mathematicians and have learned so much this year! My goal is for them to move on to second grade with confidence in their skills.  Also, for reading homework, your child should be doing the majority of reading (if not all) at this time of year.  Its great to read to them as well, but it would be best if that was in ADDITION to their reading to you for 20 minutes.  Let them show off all their great reading skills.  Please contact me if you need help finding books at their level.  Thank you for all that you do to help your children come to school ready and eager to learn.  They are such an amazing group of kids.  I look forward to seeing them each and every day!