September 28, 2012

Dear Gefen Families,

This week in math we continued to work on regrouping to the 10's column. Please keep helping your child to practice the facts! I am definitely seeing a lot of improvement and hardly any fingers!

For our study of America we began to learn about the American flag. We read a mini book about the flag which talked about the stars, stripes, original 13 colonies, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Star Spangled Banner and even Neil Armstrong placing a flag on the moon. These books were sent home. The children were asked to color in their own flag and then answer some specific questions about it including number of long stripes vs. short stripes, etc. We ended class today by watching a special video clip. Ask your child about it!

We continue to practice writing complete sentences with capitals where they belong and proper punctuation. And, now we've added recognizing nouns into the mix. We brainstormed for nouns and even went on a school wide Noun Hunt. It was a lot of fun!

For Sukkot we heard a wonderful story about the holiday and imagined what it would be like to lie in the sukkah at night. What would we hear? See? Feel? Taste? Smell?

Reminders:
No school on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 1st and 2nd, in observance of Sukkot.

Shabbat Shalom,

HaMorah Caren