May 14-18

I hope you all enjoy the  beautiful weekend!  I want to wish all of the mothers out there a very happy and blessed Mother's Day.  You are raising some pretty terrific kids that I am lucky enough to spend my days with!  You are their first and best teachers!  Thanks for ALL you do!

Important Dates and Reminders:

5/17: Building for Kids Field Trip

5/22: Tailgate Family Night

5/25&5/28: 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! :)

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.

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 portion of 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. 

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.