DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Friday, May 24th—Fun to Be Fit (1:00)
-Monday, June 3rd—Track & Field (afternoon)
FIELDTRIP
We had beautiful weather for our fieldtrip! It was a great day of learning and discovery outside! A BIG thank you to our chaperones—Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Burkholder, Mrs. Koetje, Mrs. Eling, Mrs. Johnson, & Aaron’s Grandma! We couldn’t have done it without all of your help!!
FUN TO BE FIT:
Our 3rd Annual Fun to Be Fit Day is this Friday, May 24th beginning @ 1:00. If your child purchased a t-shirt, I will distribute them on the day of the race; they are pink with black lettering, in case you’d like to coordinate colors. :) If the weather is warm, I would suggest shorts and sunscreen. Please be sure to send your child with tennis shoes. If it is cool in the morning, students can change into shorts after lunch. We will start our run at 1:00 up at the track. If you are planning on joining us, please plan to arrive between 12:30-12:45 and meet us in the classroom; it will be much easier to find us inside vs. outside.
LIBRARY BOOKS:
Our LAST visit to the library will be this Friday. Students will not be checking out new books, but they should be receiving information about the Summer Reading Program. Please be sure to return your child’s book on or before Friday.
READING:
Our focus letter for this week is the letter Q and our focus text is All I Am. We will also read several stories with ’fancy words’ as we work on Expanding our Vocabularies. In addition, I will begin reading aloud a chapter book during rest time so that we can enhance our visualizing skills. We will introduce our last 2 sightwords—all & of—which brings our total sightwords, that we’ve learned this year, to 50. :)
WRITING:
This week we will continue working on small moment stories. We will collaborate to create a class ‘small moment story’ of our fieldtrip, using the Story Buddy App. Then I will guide the students through the process of beginning their own ‘small moment stories’ as we practice selecting a memory, planning out our story, zooming in on one small moment, and putting our ideas down in order. Students will also complete a Type 3 Writing on Lifecycles later in the week.
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will continue our study of lifecycles—turning our focus to plants. The students REALLY enjoyed watching the chicks hatch last week and they are now home on the Bell’s farm.
MATH:
This week we will continue to work on addition using several different strategies. We will also begin solving simple subtraction problems. On Thursday we will go to the computer lab for Delta testing, which is a computer-based Math Assessment that all of the elementary students take.
