Pine News Update
April 2
Living Systems Living During Break
There is a piece of paper in your child's folder or backpack that will help them think about all that they've learned. Please help your child complete this reflection during the break.
Money and Time
Here are some thoughts...it's hard for children to read times that are not exactly on the hour. You can help them with this by prompting them to look at the clock every ten minutes throughout one hour of the day. Also, you could help them find some time lapse videos of clocks on YouTube. Finally, you can prompt them to watch the clock with you as one hour ends and another begins.
Some of our children are still learning the names of the coins. We taught a few songs to help them memorize names and values. Here are the lyrics:
1)
Penny, penny, easy spent
Copper brown, and worth one cent
Nickel, Nickel, thick and flat
You're worth five, I know that
Dime, Dime, little and thin
I remember, you're worth ten
Quarter, quarter big and bold
25 cents, so I'm told
Dollar, dollar green and long
100 cents, can't go wrong
All the words, in this verse
tell me what my money's worth
2)
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
a penny's worth one
and a nickel's worth five
A dime's worth ten
and a quarter's twenty-five
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
Five pennies makes a nickel
Two nickels make a dime
two dimes and nickel makes a quarter
and it's mine
Storytelling
Children are learning to tell a beginning, middle and end across three pages, and then they revisit the middle. We challenge them to tell another three pages JUST for the middle part of the story.
Please try this at home. Practice telling stories orally - tapping your fingers one, two, three - and then practice writing the stories on paper.
Spirit Week
Reading
Have a great break.