May 14-18

Happy Mother's Day! Thank you for sharing your amazing children with me during the day:)

Our field trip is Thursday!  Remember that students and chaperones need a bag lunch and drink (no lunch boxes) unless you preordered a bag lunch from school!


Upcoming Events: 
May 17: Field trip to The Building for Kids
May 22: Family Night
May 25-28: NO SCHOOL
Our BYE countdown to summer dress up days are below:
6/4: B= bright colors/sunglasses
6/5: Y= you're active/workout wear for field day
6/6: E= bE you! Wear whatever makes you, YOU! :)

Library Book Return Dates:
May 15


Reading: This week in reading we will focus on sharing the information we learn about characters with our partners.  Working to retell our stories and include character feelings will be a big portionof of our work this week. We will also learn that sometimes stories don't always come right out and say how a character is feeling and why, so we need to use what we have read to infer how a character is feeling.  This is such an important skill for young readers. 

Writing: Our minilessons will be focused on checking words in their writing to make sure they look right.  We will use vowels charts to ensure that each word has a vowel. Also, we will use blend charts (sh, ch, th, etc.) and alphabet charts to make sure we are getting the right sounds and letters in our writing. Toward the end of the week, we will use the book Knuffle Bunny to study how other authors add beginnings, endings, and settings to their stories.

Math: This week in math our focus will switch back to comparing quantities and noticing similarities and differences in how groups of objects are arranged to show a number.  This helps us to be flexible as we look to find partners of numbers 6,7,8,9, 10.  We will also work on making two unequal groups equal and to really focus on what needs to be added to make them equal.  

Science:  This week we will continue our science unit about forces. Our key idea is that by playing with and thinking about forces, people can accomplish surprisingly big things. For example, this week we will solve the mystery, “How can you knock down a wall made of concrete?”  Your child will do an activity where they investigate what happened to a “wall” made of cups when they changed the strength and direction of a paper wrecking ball.