May 20th - Newsletter Updates

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Mon., May 27th—No School—Memorial Day

-Wed., May 29th—K-2 Track & Field Day—pm

-Mon., June 3rd—Half Day—Dismissal @ 11:35

-Tues., June 4th—Half Day—Dismissal @ 11:35

-Wed., June 5th—Summer Break Begins

STUDENT OF THE MONTH:

Our May Student of the Month is Citlaly Hernandez-Mendoza. Citlaly is kind-hearted and is always helpful to others.  Her favorite food is pizza and she loves to dance!  This year she wanted to learn how to read, which she is rocking!  Citllay enjoys reading books about puppies & kittens and when she grows up, Citlaly aspires to become a pediatrician! Congratulations to Citlaly on being our Student of the Month.

FIELDTRIP: 

Thank you to ALL the moms & dads who took time off from work and juggled their busy schedules to chaperone our fieldtrip!  The museum was wonderful, but the playground was probably the favorite! :) What a fun day of making memories together!

READING:

This week our class will be reading stories about natural resources. Children will learn how they can use things in nature to create new things. Here are some activities that you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing:

· Vocabulary—natural resources & create—Discuss different natural resources with your child. For example, talk about how we use trees to create, or make new things that people use every day.

· Sightwords—where & look—Write some sentences with the words where & look, then read the sentences together and have your child highlight or underline their sightwords.

· Category Words—foods made from grain—Find different food items from your kitchen made from grains and make a list together. We will be making homemade bread in class on Friday:)

· Phonics—long o, & s blends (sl, sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, & sw)—make a list of words with short o and long o sounds—hop/hope, rob/robe, etc. Also, think of words that have s blends in them and make a list.

WRITING: 

This week we will be finishing up or Season’s Timeline by writing about our trip to the Butterfly Garden last Friday. We will also start our own personal timelines as we write about our past, present, & future.  We are going to try to do some digital writing as well this week, using our Story Buddy app.  If all goes smoothly, we’ll be emailing our parents a copy of our final draft—so watch for that!

MATH:  

This week we will continue to work on subtraction, as well as ordering numbers, and representing numbers in a variety of ways.  We will learn about function machines as well, and observe patterns while adding and subtracting.

SCIENCE:

Special thanks to Mrs. Bronkema, Mrs. VanBuskirk, & Mrs. Hernandez-Mendoza for joining us and helping as we dipped and explored in the creek last week.  This week we will continue to study and learn about the lifecycle of plants—we are patiently waiting for our Sunflowers to sprout—we had to do a second round of planting last week.  We will also continue to explore different habitats and observe and discuss how people, plants, & animals impact their environments—this week we will focus in on pigs & prairie dogs.

This Friday will be our final trip to the Library. On our last visit, we decided to keep our books at school in our book boxes for safe keeping, but a couple might still have a library book at home.