Dear Family,

Your child is learning about geometry and the solid figures and shapes found around us. He or she is describing, classifying, and analyzing solid figures by their attributes and will use the terms face, edge, and vertex in some of his or her descriptions. Your child will also learn about lines, angles, and polygons. She or he will learn how to classify triangles and quadrilaterals based on their angles and line segments.Here are two activities that you can do at home that will extend your child’s knowledge of solids and shapes.

Respectfully,
Ms. Mitchell

Solid Figure Search

Ask your child to name each of these solid figures: cylinder, sphere, cube, rectangular prism, pyramid, and cone. Then have your child find an example of each at home or in your neighborhood.

Map It Out!

Materials: map or atlas

Maps can be a great tool to reinforce geometric vocabulary and understanding. Using a map of your

community, city, or state, you and your child can locate points, lines, angles, and shapes. Challenge your child to find acute angles, parallel or intersecting lines, or an obtuse triangle.

Important Dates

March 27 (Wednesday)

Progress Reports sent home

March 28 (Thursday)

Parent Coffee

7:30–8:15 a.m.

March 28 (Thursday)

Award Assembly

8:15 a.m., playroom

March 29 (Friday)

Break

No school

What Time Is It?

Dear Family,
     Welcome Back! I hope that you all enjoyed your Spring Break. I certainly did! It is hard to believe that we have already reached the fourth quarter. I am looking forward to all of the fun and learning the students will experience in the weeks to come. I have added a new tab to the blog for pictures to be viewed. Be on the look out for pictures!
     When we return your child will be learning concepts related to time and temperature. He or she will be telling time to the nearest half hour, quarter hour, and minute, as well as measuring elapsed time. Your child will also learn to use a thermometer to measure temperatures using degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Here are two activities that will increase your child’s measuring skills in time and temperature.

What Time Is It?

• Ask your child what time it is right now. Repeat throughout 

the day. Vary the questions by asking what time it will be in 

30 minutes, in 45 minutes, or in 1 hour.

• Help your child write and follow a schedule for eating 

dinner, doing homework, and getting ready for bed.

Discuss the length of each activity.

Estimating Temperature

Materials: Thermometer (optional), paper and

pencil, old magazines, scissors, glue

Step 1 Have your child copy and draw a thermometer.

Have him or her mark the following on its scale:

Water freezes 32˚F or 0˚C, Room temperature

68˚F or 20˚C, and Normal body temperature 98.6˚F or 37˚C.

Step 2 Have your child find and cut out photos in

old magazines that illustrate different temperatures.

Ask him or her to identify the temperature as hot,

warm, cool, or cold.

Step 3 Have your child glue the pictures at or

around the appropriate temperatures on his or

her thermometer.