ABC Countdown

(the items bold and underline are the days you need to prepare for-Thank you!):

May 10-Wear a Hat

May 11-Ice pop Day

May 12-Be ready to share a joke

May 13-Spreading acts of kindness

May 14-Write a letter

Other Reminders:

• please make sure your child has gym shoes for Monday (there has been some shoe switching or size adjusting going on. 🙂 The kids are growing!!
• Along with growing in shoe size, some are growing appetites. Please check in with your child about their lunch and snack choices to make sure they have enough. Thank you!
• Remember to send library books in Monday! We love listening to Mrs. Joustra read and picking out new books each week.

What We Have Been Learning:

We began our PBL for spring. After learning about living things, we were curious about different animals. The class is working in groups to learn more about one animal. This week, each group made a list of questions they want to know about the animal they are studying. Next week we will begin researching the animal and writing answers in our journals. This is a fun project and a lot of work! It truly shows how much your children have grown this year to do this type of work! It is awesome!

In Daily 5 we brought out another “word work box”. Students look at a picture card and then build words with foam letters. This is great practice for writing!

In writing workshop we focused on writing one sentence well. We are checking our own word making sure we began with an uppercase letter and ended the sentence with a period. We are checking that our writing is neat and that there are finger spaces between words. We are using word wall words in our writing and drawing a picture to match the sentence.

We continue we work on handwriting. This week we focuses on A and S.

In Math we reviewed flat shapes as we begin to learn about 3 dimensional shapes next week. We used our lemonaide stand to create addition and subtraction problems. For example 3 apples plus 7 cups of lemonaide equal 10 items. This is a fun way to keep practicing addition and subtraction. Make sure your child is writing out the equation as well. They are getting better and better at number writing.

Creative Chalk drawing on C day.

We enjoyed Experiment day outside! We test 4 kinds of soda (grape, orange, dr. pepper and diet coke) with mentos to see which made the higher blast! Then we tested diet coke with fruity mentos and mint mentos.

IMG-5568 experiment video

IMG-5569 experiment video