We started continued our study of dinosaurs today by listening to another chapter from our book, Dinosaurs Before Dark, read by Tulie. We're almost at the end of the book, the children can't wait to find out what happens! Be sure to ask your child about the story thus far. We then learned how to measure dinosaurs using unifix cubes. Unifix cubes are manipulatives used frequently for math projects. We took out toy dinosaurs and determined how many unifix cubes long the dinosaurs are and how many unifix cubes tall the dinosaurs are. We also did some crayon rubbings of dinosaurs. We'll continue these activites and go further with our measuring on Friday.
Since we're on the subject of dinosaurs, please feel free to send in anything relating to dinosaurs you may have at home; books, toys, stickers, stamps, puzzles, etc. would be great. During conferences, several of you mentioned having books or toys at home having to do with them. If you wouldn't mind us borrowing them for our unit, we'd love to! :)
We're in need of a class sponsor! It is a Community School tradition for the students to walk to Hollins University the Friday morning of the Strawberry Festival to get a "child-sized" portion of a strawberry shortcake. In order for us to do this, we need a class sponsor. Since the portions are "child-sized", they are $3.00 for each child ($24.00 for the whole class). If you would like to sponsor us by donating either cash or a check written out to Community School, please let me know as soon as possible. We will walk over on Friday, April 30th.We thank you in advance!!
As always, thank you for everything you do.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE click on the Strawberry Festival Blog link on the top right hand side of the page to sign up for your festival shift. We're in desperate need of help and there are several of you who haven't signed up yet! Check Quick Notes for the shifts we still need filled. THANKS!
