Assawompset News

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Happy Lunar New year!

K: This week all K classes played the boomwhackers to fun some songs!

1st: In first grade we are preparing for our big performance on Wednesday, April 16th @ 10:00am in the AES gymnasium!

2nd: This week all 2nd grade classes played rhythm basketball!

*A letter was sent home to let families know that the 2nd graders will be performing on Wednesday, May 14th @ 10:00am in the AES gymnasium. Please plan ahead as we are asking for all children to wear a red shirt for the performance!

3rd: This week all 3rd grade classes played note name/rhythm basketball! If you have not sent in a recorder for your child, please do asap! We almost have everyones! Thank you to those families who sent one in and to those families who sent in extras.

Happy Lunar New Year!

Students in kindergarten are learning how to use the Pebble Go database. Students are exploring the animal section and listening to the animal of their choice.

First graders are also looking up animals and sharing out 2 facts they learned about their animal.

Second and third graders are creating a scene in Scratch that contains various elements they learned about Lunar New Year. They are coming out great!

Kinders are participating in an AES Art tradition; PIGGIE IN A BLANKET! We read We Are in a Book by Mo Willems. We learned that you can draw ANYTHING by using shapes, letters, and numbers.

First graders read Yoko by Rosemary Wells. We are making sushi plates!!

Second graders are creating Blue Willow plates, a style that is from Chinese legend.

Third graders are making some great masks to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

This week in PE, students are continuing to build their fitness through fun and engaging activities!

• Kindergarten: Students will complete a workout before playing Gaga Ball, a fun and active game that helps develop agility and coordination.

• Grades 2 & 3: Students are warming up with a quick exercise before playing a game called Mario Kart. In this game, they ride scooters to complete as many laps as possible while dodging "turtle shells." If they get hit, they must complete an upper-body exercise before getting back on their scooter (a lower-body workout).

• Grade 1: Some classes will be playing Gaga Ball, while others will be participating in Mario Kart.

These activities help students build strength, endurance, and teamwork while having a great time!

This week, Kindergarten students are reading and discussing what living things need to grow. Students read My Garden, written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes. In this story a girl helps out in her mother’s garden, but in the garden of her imagination there are chocolate rabbits, tomatoes as big as beach balls, flowers that change color and a jelly bean bush. How fun! We learned new sight words: my & has. In math we have been learning how to decompose, or break the number 10 down into parts. (3 & 7, 9 & 1, etc.) We are also excited to hear Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction on Groundhog Day!

Our Essential Question for this week was, How do plants change as they grow? First grade students are learning about the parts of plants and how they grow. Students read a play called, The Yuca Plant. They learned about the Narrator’s role and the characters. Students also wrote about what they would grow in their garden and used describing words. Students are working on reading and writing words that have

the magic. We are also working on building our “Math Fact Fluency”

Grade two continues to work diligently on preparing for our animal research project. This week we continue our study of habitats, animal adaptations and endangered animals. Students are gaining much knowledge in these areas and are ready to choose an endangered animal to focus on for this project. They are engaged and excited to learn more! In math we are working on understanding three-digit numbers and how to determine the value of a digit in the different place values. Students were also excited to finally get outside for recess a bit this week and benefitted from that fresh air :)

Grade 3 is doing a great job with area in math. We’ve done various activities to practice our skills. Next up we will tackle one and two step word problems using all four operations, followed by graphing. In reading we are wrapping up Unit 3 in Wonders. In science we are finishing our study of extreme weather and weather hazards. After break we will move back to social studies and begin to learn about The American Revolution.