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STEM NIGHT 2022

STEM night was a FUN night!


Many thanks and kudos to the Boonton PTA for providing little scientists with everything they needed to hypothesize, discover and LEARN in a stimulating environment! Lab stations included: Cup Phone, Color Changing Flowers, Power of Air, Floor is Lava, Potato Battery and Static Electricity just to name a few!

A WORD FROM OUR INTERVENTIONISTS

April is National Poetry Month! Therefore, it's the PERFECT time to discuss the benefits of sharing and celebrating poetry with your children.

POETRY:

* Builds vocabulary

* Further develops recognition of pattern, rhyme, point of view, tone and mood

* Encourages creative thinking and inspires imagination

* Helps us get in touch with our feelings

* Provides enjoyment and laughter

* Positively impacts our writing

Poetry can also help to increase our love of reading!!!

This month, why not share some old and new poems and celebrate poetry!

Here's one to get you started:

Tree House

by Shel Silverstein

A tree house, a free house,

A secret you and me house,

A high up in the leafy branches

Cozy as can be house.


A street house, a neat house,

Be sure and wipe your feet house

Is not my kind of house at all-----

Let's go live in a tree house

KINDERGARTEN

This week kindergarten readers went on more reading playdates where they read nonfiction books! In Fundations this week, students continued to strengthen their recognition of digraphs and digraph sounds. What we are most impressed by is how they are finding digraphs in the books they are reading, in stories they are writing, and even in words they see throughout the classroom. Students are also continuing to learn new “trick words” each week (words we cannot tap), and they are composing and reading sentences with trick words in them.

Back in the "spring" of things---careful geometricians (Isn't that a cool name for someone who specializes in geometry!?) began their exploration of shapes. Chapter nine's GO MATH vocabulary includes: alike, different, circle, rectangle, square, triangle, hexagon, side, curve, vertex and vertices. This weekend why not go on a two dimensional shape hunt? How many circles, rectangles, squares and triangles can you and your child find? Perhaps you will record the results on paper and share them on Monday! Happy hunting!


First Grade

This week the first graders are practicing spelling words with five sounds in Fundations. They also enjoy learning about vowel teams and get excited when they find one in their reading books. In Reading, students are taking control and “being the boss” of their own reading. They stop at the first sign of trouble, use everything they know to decode the word, and self monitor their reading by doing a triple check (does it look right, does it sound right, and does it make sense?) In Math, the first graders have started a new chapter, Comparing Numbers. They are learning about greater than, less than, and equal to. Students are reviewing their tens and ones and examining the relationship between each number. In Social Studies, students are discussing communities where they live, natural resources, and ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle.


Second Grade

Thank you to all our parents who attended parent/teacher conferences. In reading this week the students continued to learn to identify and read types of traditional literature including fairy tales, folk tales, and tall tales. They continued to focus on the elements of fairy tales and how characters in fairy tales experience a range of emotions throughout the stories and live in significantly different worlds than we do. In writing the students used the elements of a fairy tale to write their own fractured fairy tales. In fundations the students learned how to read, write and mark up words with oi and oy along with practicing trick words. In math the students worked on finishing up chapter 6 mastering how to regroup three digit numbers in addition and subtraction. We will soon start our unit on money and time. Please have your children start practicing how to count your coins at home. We also continued to work on problem solving with some multiple step problems. In social studies the students learned about natural resources we use in our communities, how we can care for them and why we celebrate Earth Day. Thank you for your continued support.