Weeky Update

Hello Families,

Everyone worked so hard on their Mother’s Day projects this week. They are very proud of their work and are so excited to share their gift with you. They might not be able to wait until Sunday! J Happy Mother’s Day!

 

 

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

Friday, May 30 – Field House Field Trip

 

Math

Math Workshop is going very well. If you have any feedback from your child or from your perspectives about Math Workshop I’d love to hear. J We started a new unit on graphing. We reviewed “how many more” and “how many fewer.” Then we learned about picture graphs and bar graphs. Be on the lookout for graphs and see if your child can identify the type of graph it is. Right now all of our graphs go up only in increments of 1.

 

Reading Workshop

Great readers determine important information when they read. This week we have been identifying what is important and not important in our lives. Next we identified what was important to Lilly, from “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse.” Next week we will begin to identify important information in text and less important details.

 

Writer’s Workshop

Our research reports are completed! They all worked so hard on this project. I will try my best to get them graded and sent home next week. The grade on the project will be for the research part of the writing only. I will use the report and several other writing samples to assess capital letters, punctuation, neatness, and letter formation. All students were guided through the report at some level. The M, P. and D will be determined by how much additional help was needed to locate the write facts about their animal.

 

This Week I Really Learned!

Thank you for writing to your child each week. We really do enjoy hearing all of the letters written each week. I am only able to check some letters each week. If your child’s letter is not adequate you are more than welcome to have him/her re-write it at home and/or write a letter back to your child stating expectations for next time. J

 

 

Word Workshop

We continue learning about r controlled vowels. This week we learned words with /eer/. All of words were spelled with ear or eer. We also talked a lot about the different of deer and dear and that deer is singular and plural.

 

Grammar

We learned about pronouns. Ask your child to say a sentence without using any pronouns. We did this with our morning messages and found out how important pronouns are. 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 Mother’s Day weekend!