This week we began a new physical science theme unit. Over the next four weeks Synergy students will be learning about forces of motion, push and pull, gravity, magnetism, and sound energy. The students are mixed together with their first and second grade teammates to participate in hands on investigations and inquiry based workshops for two days each week. The kids love being able to think like scientists and it is amazing to see the scientific process at work in these curious young minds.
As we head into the second half of the year in Fundations, we are looking at multisyllablic words and more complex patterns like vowel teams and r-controlled syllables. Please remember that you have access to the words of the week on the Parent Information Wiki located on the Synergy web page. Practicing these words at home will help to reinforce the concepts that are being taught in school. The more comfortable your child is with these concepts, the more he/she will be able to transfer that knowledge into their decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) with automaticity.
Now that it (finally) looks like winter has arrived, please remember that your child must have boots and snow pants everyday if they want to be able to go off of the blacktop at recess time.
Think Snow!
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