Weekly Update

Hello Families,

Can you believe we only have 13 school days left? Next week we will take the CSA (Comprehensive Strategy Assessment), and then we will be done with our end of the year reading assessments. Next Wednesday we will be taking the A-math assessment on the computer. We will also begin to reassess math topics. If your child has not mastered his/her addition and subtraction facts please do some extra practice at home. They need 45/50 facts to sums of 12 in 5 minutes. Thank you! J

 

Important end of the year dates (More will be added as they become available.)

Friday, May 23^rd – last day to check out books at the school library

Monday, May 26 – Memorial Day -  No school

Tuesday, May 27 – All School Meeting and Panther Pride Picnic

Friday, May 30 – Field House Field Trip

Thursday, June 5 – Last day of school

 

Math

We have almost completed a short unit on graphing. Students have learned how to read and create picture and bar graphs. They have also learned how to make tally marks and turn a tally chart into a picture graph.

 

Reading Workshop

Great readers determine important information when they read. We used important information in stories to identify the author’s message. Today we learned how to read quotations to figure out which character is talking and when the narrator switches to a character speaking.

 

Writer’s Workshop

I hope you enjoyed reading your child’s animal report. They worked very hard and are so proud of their reports. J This week we learned about power sentences. We know we can “fancy up” the verb and add adjectives to make our sentences more interesting. Instead of, “The boy went up the stairs,” we could say, “The boy sprinted up the stairs to his new puppy.”

 

This Week I Really Learned!

Our letters are getting better and better each week. We are getting more written in our short writing time. Thank you for writing back to your child each week. We love reading the letters during snack. J

 

Word Workshop

We continue learning about r controlled vowels. This week we learned words with /air/. All of words were spelled with ear, are, or air. We also talked a lot about the different of pear and pair and fair and fare.

 

Grammar

We learned how to use “me” and “I”. “I” is used in the subject of sentence and always listed last when talking about yourself with other people. “Me” is used in the predicate of the sentence. For example, we say, “This is my friend and me.” Not, “This is my friend and I.” The reason is you would not say, “This is I,” so when deciding what to use think of how you would say the sentence if you were only talking about yourself. J

 

Water Bottles

Please remember that water bottles may only contain water. If you would like your child to drink something other than water at snack, please send a small amount (no more than 6 ounces) of a beverage that does not contain sugar. I’ve asked the students to bring their water bottles to school empty and fill them with water in the morning. I’m hoping this will eliminate the bathroom “emergencies” we’ve been having lately. Thank you very much for your help with this! J

Have a wonderful weekend!