3C students will continue with rhyming words. try practicing it at home whenever you can. Rhyming helps children learn how language works. If you say..."Let's go to the park; I wonder what rhymes with park?" It helps children learn to anticipate the rhyming word and prepares them to make predictions when they read, which is an important reading skill! 

3C will continue with our Unique Learning System (ULS) unit, At the Amusement Park. This week students will focus on another story, Addie's Choices at the Amusement Park.  Addie will have to make choices regarding her day at the Amusement Park and students will answer comprehension questions about it. Words for our Word Wall will be can, ride, look, stop, like, and play. 

For science, we will focus on gravity. As we learn about rollercoasters and amusement park rides, we will expand on this and perform related activities such as creating ramps that can be used with or without water, watch how objects roll down, and creating our own water slide or roller coasters for objects or manipulatives to slide down! This will lead to a lot of group discussions as to why some objects go faster than others.  

Vocational Outings...Monday: Meals on Wheels food deliveries; Wednesday: shopping trip for our cooking class; Thursdays: Group Cooking Class & Group PE; Fridays: fun group related educational/recreational activity or field trip in the community & special treat; and the 3rd Tuesday of each month is our Animal Assisted Happiness Vocational Outing followed by community recreational Baylands Park field trip. 

Parents, please send in new sunscreen for your child. The sunscreen from last year has expired or is almost empty! In this extreme heat, we will be outdoors early before it gets too hot to fulfill exercise goals and then inside for the rest of the day enjoying the air conditioned classrooms, staying cool, and hydrated! 

Lastly, we really want to honor all of the awesome and dynamic Dad's on Friday, June 14th for a pre-Father's Day Celebration! You work so hard all year and deserve time for some fun and treats! I have sent an email trying to find what time works best, morning or afternoon and will update everyone as soon as I have heard from all Dads!