Monday, May 16th

As the children left today, I asked them to remember something they liked about our learning day. Here were some of their answers:

"The Mystery of the Missing Meatballs" a wonderful math story that began our new unit called Understanding Subtraction! We will be working with terms like separating, taking away, comparing, and finding the difference.

Centers - always a favorite, especially the new ocean center Mrs Bartsch started last week!

Having our volunteer, Mrs. Jockers take children one at a time to the hall to count, talk about more and less, name shapes, 3-D shapes, and coins! She had been on a trip and it was fun to have her back for the last few weeks! As we came in from recess, Mr. Croff walked by her and Mrs. Jockers called him "Kevin" because she knew him when he was a little boy. One student said "That's not his name, it's Mr Croff! Mrs. Jockers felt like she had done something wrong calling him "Kevin" but he explained that she could because she was an adult. So the students learned that it shows respect to call adults by Mr. and Mrs. and when they get older to use first names.

We also had a fun song called "The Fix-It Shop" where we found three words that rhyme and got to clap when we heard them 5 times in the song!

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The sad news is it is really looking like rain the rest of the week. We will either be postponing or cancelling the Farm Trip. I left a message with the Farmer to see if next Tuesday or Wednesday would work for them. Either way, the children who said they are bringing lunches need to bring them this Thursday because the order is already in and the school will be receiving less lunches that are on the menu and sack lunches for those who ordered them. We will probably make it a fun lunchtime in the room or some other place in school if it really is raining the whole day! Keep checking the blog and the backpacks for a notice of the final plans. Weather is always a factor in these kinds of field trips and children need to learn to deal with disappointments as well as enjoying different environments when we can!

In PE today Mrs. Edgmond went over some of the games that will be at field trip and the behavior expectations as well as introducing the huge parachute that will be outside next Monday afternoon! Hopefully the weather next week will be wonderful, warm and summer-like!

That's about all for now, except to ask you to please remember to donate a snack if you can!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Clapper