We are in the home stretch of the year! The next month will be very busy. We are learning about life cycles in science- first we are looking at the life cycle of butterflies. Our 5 caterpillars arrived last week and we have been watching them grow. We can’t wait until they make a chrysalis! Following caterpillars, we will learn about the life cycles of other animals and how some animals come from an egg. We will also learn about plants and will be planting sunflower seeds mid month. We will learn about the parts of a plant and review needs of living things as we care for our plants. We will learn that all things grow and change- including ourselves! 

In social studies we are learning about our Earth. We learned about the 3 R’s for Earth Day and now are learning about our place in the world. We will look at maps and globes, use directional words, and learn about our city, state, country, continent and world!

In language arts we continue daily 5 and now are reading several different books. We are continuing to work on retelling stories. We have been focusing on the “h brothers” (th, ch, sh, wh) as well as adding new words to our growing list of High Frequency Words- this week we focused on the word “little” and learned the first two of our number spelling songs and learned how to spell “one” and “two”.