June 3, 2021

 Hello Families, 

We are having a great week together and have been enjoying the sunshine! 

We have been working hard preparing for our puppet shows next week by planning the elements of the show. We talked about creating a landscape as the backdrop for our puppet show and took our learning outside yesterday to do the painting work! We used acrylic paint and items from nature to add details to the landscapes though a stamping technique. Many of the students have been asking if they can take their puppet show stuff home as they are excited to recreate puppet shows for you! Each day next week we will be doing 4 puppet shows and they will be recorded and uploaded to Google Classroom so you can watch them from home, also! 

We have been continuing to play games to practice the strategies of adding and subtracting with 

8's and 9's and today we introduced fact families! Fact families always seem to be a tricky concept for kiddos, so feel free to review this concept at home if you'd like!

We are also beginning to learn about building with a variety of materials and thinking about constructing boats. Yesterday we watched a Science Max about buoyancy which the students loved and did a mini challenge to use tinfoil to construct a boat that could support a load. Today we will begin blueprinting our boats and the construction will begin next week. If you have any cardboard, popsicle sticks, or wine corks around the house could you please send them in for us to build with? We will require these items early next week, I can take care of sanitizing them at school! :)

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

Take care, 

Ms. Brown