Walk on Wednesday CLE Spirit Day!
- In reading this week, we have been reading stories about friendship, such as Toss, Kick, Hop. The story Friends All Around helped us learn about friends in different parts of the world and traditional games played together in other countries.
- We learned the digraphs kn (as in knot) and ph (as in phone). We also reviewed wh, th, sh, ck, and ch from kindergarten. The kids practiced marking their digraphs with one underline, like chick or wish. We keep reading and writing words with blends, bonus letters, the suffix s, and digraphs. Sample words your child should be able to read and write are: shops, hall, chills, toss, ships, brush, chimp, stick, chest, crash, stack, etc. Ask your child if they can mark those words up!!
- For math this week, we continue to learn addition and subtraction strategies. We learned:
- Flip Flop Facts (turn around facts) 3+4=7 and 4+3=7
- Related Facts 4+2=6 so 6-2=4
- Using Number Lines to Subtract with story problems
- New words this week: fun, make, they, too
- In science we did apple experiments! We turned into little scientists and explored everything we could about apples! We made predictions if the apples would be sweet or sour and then tasted them. We graphed our favorite tasting apple and discovered the star of seeds when the apple was cut in half. We tested our hypothesis' to see if the apples changed colors in Mountain Dew, cranberry juice, blue Gatorade, or Pink Lemonade. Finally, we used a balance scale to determine how many pattern blocks, dice, coins, Popsicle sticks, and cubes our apple weighed!
- This weekend is Homecoming so it is time to have fun with the Redwood float! All students are invited to join us for the parade this Saturday, October 7th. Please meet us at Bleser Park along the basketball courts by 10:00. This year’s theme is Redwood Rocks! featuring decorations and music all centered around the 80s! If possible, please have your child wear 80s themed clothing to help show our school spirit! And it wouldn’t be a real parade without candy – please bring candy for your child to toss to the spectators. The parade begins at 10:30 and should be wrapped up by 11:30 for pickup back at Bleser Park. If you would like to help decorate the float, we will be gathering at Redwood afterschool Friday with lots of cutting and attaching to do! If possible, bring along a pair of scissors and even a staple gun to help us rock out the float! Kids are welcome to help too. Any questions, please contact Holly Kessler (hollykessler@centurylink.net)
- Next Week: Wed. Oct 11th- WOW theme is hat or crazy hat day