April 30-May 4

This week is all about the NEW!  New units in (almost) every subject and a new month! It is crazy to think we are gearing up for our last full month together!!!

With our Building For Kids Trip quickly approaching, we do need an idea of interested chaperones by May 3rd! Please shoot me an email if you would like to join us, if you have not already sent back the permission slip!  We are hoping to take all of those interested, but the BFK needs numbers by this week so they can plan accordingly!  

Important Dates and Reminders:
5/17: Building for Kids Field Trip

5/22: Tailgate Family Night
5/25 &5/28: NO SCHOOL


Math: Here are a few highlights of what students will be doing in math this week:

• Telling, retelling, and writing equations for addition and subtraction stories
• building partners of 10 in many different ways to build fluency
• Practicing showing partners for 7-9
• Building numbers 1-20 with different tools and looking for patterns within the model

Reading: We will start a new unit on characters this week! We will start to learn the ways you can ‘meet’ the characters in our books. Some ways to do this are to pay attention to the title, cover, and setting. We will also take picture walks and think about the feelings our characters have. By the end of the week, we will be focusing on the changes in character feelings.

Writing: ATTENTION! Writers will be having a writing boot camp this week! As we head into the last part of the year, we will push ourselves to do what strong writers ALWAYS do: make writing easy to read and write more and more. We will make our writing easy to read by making sure we have a vowel sound in every word and checking to see that the first letter of the sentence is uppercase. In order to write more, writers ask questions to add more sentences to the page and set goals of how much writing they can get done in a day.

Science: We will began our science unit about forces:  the pushes, pulls, and other actions that we do whenever we do work. Scientists will learn that before we had machines, we had to do lots of work by hand. We will talk about how machines are not magical; rather they just seem that way because there are often moving parts hidden inside. Encourage your child’s curiosity by asking them to go on a “machine walk” around the house: invite your child to identify machines around your home.(examples include things like a washing machine or dryer, a dishwasher, a hair dryer, an electric toothbrush, a car).