Welcome to a new week. I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful weather this past Saturday as I did! We were hoping that the weather stayed nice so Mrs. Morales could work with the kids to finish the garden project! Have you seen it? I love the bright orange color they picked. The designs that they will paint on the garden box will finish it off! We will get out there again when the weather gets better. If you haven't sent in your child's favorite flower please do so soon so it can get planted into our Room 6 Garden Box.

We have a new story this week that will help us focus on the different sounds that the letter y makes depending on where it is in the word. This story also helps us focus on details and how they provide so much interest in a story. We will try to add many details in our writing this week and from this point on. A good way to help you child with this is to ask him/her to speak using many details when telling you about something.

In math we will learn how to relate subtraction to addition and the other way around. For instance, if you know that 2+7 is 9 then you know that 9-7 is 2. This should be your focus this week while doing the daily math review with your child.

In science, we will study a new habitat, the desert. Do you have desert books at home? If you do, this week is s a good time to read them. The kids are enjoying adding all the new learning to their science journal. It will come home again soon for you to see what they have been doing.

This week we will celebrate Earth Week with many different activities. You child should come home talking about ways you can help save the earth by reusing, recycling and reducing. They noticed today how much trash they have daily just in their lunch! This is something they are going to try to reduce.

Have a great week!