Would you want to dive into the ocean?

We began our week with this question: "Would you want to dive into the ocean?" We graphed our answers to it. Most students thought it would be fun to scuba dive. We made ourselves as scuba divers - we think we look awesome!

We rounded out our week by learning about whales, octopuses, starfish and sharks - each day we read, wrote and created! Our Ocean books will come home this week, but we will leave some of our artwork up a little bit longer. Sometimes we write from a model, and sometimes we write down our own thoughts about our learning. Many children are labeling their diagrams and adding important detail!

Next week we will begin a new science unit about insect life cycles. This class loves science! They especially love some of the science books I bring in from the library. Your children might really enjoy some trips to your local library this summer! We keep our special library books in big baskets with handles, and many children are able to sustain quiet reading with a basket for 20 minutes! It would be wonderful to build this same quiet reading time into your child's schedule each day this summer. Not only does it help support literacy skills, it is a wonderful way to develop attention and focus!
Our younger students have been working on adding and subtracting numbers using different methods. We can draw a picture or make dots, use our fingers, use a number line or count with cubes. We will be doing a lot more hands on practice with this for all of our students, and they may wish to practice at home as well!

In our Social Skills lessons, we continued to talk about friendly ways to play with a partner. We practiced sharing toys, dividing toys fairly and using a timer to take turns with a toy.