March break is around the corner!!

Hi everyone,
I hope that you are having a great start to the week. This will be a very short week for the students seeing that school was cancelled Monday,delayed today and no school Friday do to parent teacher interviews.
We have finished up our theme on home and will be starting En voyage. I have gotten some great responses from my friends around the world about sending our class some post cards. I expect a lot in the next couple of week. If any of you are going away for March Break feel free to drop a post card in the mail addressed to the school.I will list the address below.I would also ask you to take pictures of your vacation and ways that you are getting around while away. The students will then take these pictures in to share with the rest of the class. If you are not going away, you may still send some pictures in of the activities that you have over the break.

The students are absolutely loving the science unit. I try to have at least 3 students present a day. They are asking lots of questions (in french!!) and learning new vocabulary. Our first experiment will be on how we use our ears to locate sound.

We have changed literacy centers today. All the centers are focusing on the sounds such as on,ou,oi and so on. Some of the centers include go fish with sounds and punctuation, bingo, reading with a partner and an interactive computer game.
I will be changing the math centers this week as well, which will be focusing on additions and subtractions. We have been practicing number recognition with our dot plates. (A plate that has a number of dots on it, lined up in rows of 5.) Students should be able to recognize within 3 seconds the number on the plates. So far we are mastering numbers 1-15. I encourage you to keep counting with your child at numbers 1-100 and have them count backwards as well.

I will be adding some great fun french websites that your child can go on at home. Some of them even allow the students to be read to in french! Have fun!

That's all for now. I look forward to meeting with you all at the parent teacher interviews. Till then have a great rest of the week. Keep Smiling :)