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Upcoming Events

·       Tuesday, May 7^th – NWEA reading testing

·       Friday, May 10^th – NWEA math testing

·       Saturday, May 11^th – Color Run

·       Monday, May 13^th – Dibels testing

·       Thursday, May 16^th – Field Trip to Midland Center for the Arts

·       Monday, May 20^th – Delayed Start

·       Monday, May 27^th – Memorial Day -No School

·       Wednesday, May 29^th – K-2 Field Day from 12:30-2:15.

·       Friday, May 31^st – Summer Birthday’s Celebration Day

·       Monday, June 3^rd – ½ day

·       Tuesday, June 4^th – Awards Assembly, ½ day, and Last day of School

This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –How can you help at home?

Letters of the week – Magic e (a_e) & diagraph sh (ship)

Sight words of the week – help, too, him

Vocabulary words – chores, contribute, member, organize, accomplish

Category words – household furniture

Reading –CAFÉ reader friend – Reread – Repair Bear & Main Topic & Key Details – Digger Dog & Flippy Dolphin

Reader’s workshop – reader’s stamina, partner reading, continue selecting good fit books, RAZ kids, continuing good reading habits with our take home reading folders

Grammar – adjectives

Writing – Informational stories and journal entries

Math:

7.11 – Class Collections (homelink)

7.12 – Dice Addition

7.13 – Mystery Block

8.1 – Solid Shapes by Feel

8.2 – Marshmallow & Toothpick Shapes (homelink)

Social Studies: - School wide expectations

Science: - Starting Unit 3 – Living it up

Focus Q. – How do plants, animals, and people depend on their environment to get what they need?

Investigation Q. – How do plants, animals, and people change their environment to get what they need?

Phenomena – Beaver build a beaver dam

(investigating frogs too)

Technology: - RAZ kids, hideout, Splash Math

Show-N-Tell this week!

Any item will be fine.

Testing Starts this Week!

Tomorrow we have our NWEA spring reading test in the morning.  Please make sure your kiddos get proper sleep tonight and a healthy dinner.  Friday morning, we will be taking our NWEA spring math test.  Therefore, on Thursday night please have a consistent bedtime routine.  Thank you for your help with this!

Field Trip!

Thursday, May 16^th from 8:30-2:30

At the Midland Center for the Arts

We are very blessed to have numerous parent chaperones. Thank you for taking the time out of our work schedules to spend the day with your little one.  Remember to pack a lunch that day, for yourself and your children.

Math collections!

We are collecting bottle caps and/or milk/juice jug caps for our math collections and estimations lessons.

Friday, May 31^st is our Summer Birthdays Celebration Day.

If your son or daughter has a summer Birthday we would love to celebrate them in class that day with snacks!  If you are willing to donate a treat or drinks for the class, please let me know and we will arrange it.

Happy Mother’s Day Weekend to all the super Mothers & Grandmothers we all have!!!