Monday, December 9
Dear Parents,
I hope you had a good weekend. The forecast is calling for warmer weather for the rest of the week, so we may get to go outside for recess. Thank you for making sure your child comes to school prepared for cold and snowy weather. Students are not allowed to play in the snow unless they are wearing boots.
Math Update
Last week, we explored ways to measure things using the customary and metric systems of measurement using inches, centimeters, cups, pints, quarts, gallons, liters, milliliters, pounds, ounces, grams, and kilograms. You can help your child become familiar with these units of measure by working with measurement together. For example, you might estimate and measure the length of something in inches and centimeters. You might use a measuring cup to explore how the cup can be used to fill pints, quarts, or gallons of liquid.
This week , we are learning about time. This topic is directly connected to home and community and involves skills your child will use often in everyday situations. Students are reading time to the hour, half-hour, quarter-hour, five minutes, and minutes, as well as describing the time before the hour and after the hour. Students will also be using clocks to solve problems about elapsed time and learning how to add and subtract time on a number line.
Please help your child read time and find elapsed time. Ask your child to estimate how long it takes to do activities such as eating a meal, traveling to the store, or doing homework. Have your child look at the clock when starting an activity and then again at the end of the activity. Ask how long the activity took.
Thank you for supporting your child with our current math unit.
We would love to see you at our Winter Party, which runs from 1:30 to 2:30 on Friday, December 20th. Thank you to our wonderful room parents and to all of you for making this party a success.
If you have any questions or comments, please call or write to me.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Aisha Galt
