May events2

Upcoming Events

·       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 –What do good citizens do?

Letters of the week – Magic e (i_e) & diagraph ch (chip)

Sight words of the week – has, play, all

Vocabulary words – respect, tidy, necessary, hauled

Category words – farm animals

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:

8.2 – Marshmallow & Toothpick Shapes (homelink)

8.4 – Interrupted Counting (homelink)

8.5 – Dice Subtraction

8.6 – Craft-Stick Bundles (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)

·       Final visit to Butterfly Garden for Spring

·       Visiting the creek behind the school and dipping for frogs & tadpoles.

Technology: - RAZ kids, hideout, Splash Math

Our last book order for the year is due this Wednesday.

Field Trip! This

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

At the Midland Center for the Arts

A couple things to note for this Thursday’s field trip.

·      Remember to bring a sacked lunch. (with their names  on them)

·      Please have your child where their Kindergarten tee-shirt they received at the beginning of the year.

·      Wear appropriate clothing for the weather.

·      We will NOT be visiting the gift shop.

·      We will have a light snack on the way there.

·      We will have some books, crayons, & activities for the bus ride there. 

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 drink for your child, please let me know and we will arrange it.

Happy May Birthday to Ariana!!!

This is the last week for reading folders to be coming home with classroom take-home books.  Please return all my classroom books by early next week so I can take inventory.