Information and Reminders
Wednesday May 9(Tulip Time): Half day of School
Bus will leave at 11:45 A.M. If you like to pick up your child, please be at school by 11:50 A.M.
No hot lunch and P.M bussing: May 10 and 11
Tulip Time Family Fun https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XCQ55tyWMclJKKLQf7FKAP-20Cy6CY2C/view?ts=5adf6d3f
May Birthday Celebrations:
Olivia Haveman Friday, May 18
Chelsea Pyle Monday, May 21
Memorial Day Parade: May 28 Thank you to Joanna Havemen, one of the Lamers, and Meredith Geurink for marching with us this year. If I have not hear from you, I will plan on your child marching in the parade.
Farmer’s Market and Kollen Park: Wednesday, May 30 9:00am-12:45pm This is our last field trip. Each kid needs to bring their own sack lunch and drink. We will begin the day following a map of Holland Farmer’s Market and helping the children decide what to buy. We will go to Kollen Park to have lunch and play after the market. We will be back to school around 12:45. Thank you to Meredith Geurink, Cara Wickstra, Dana Moeller and Abby Allen for driving the field trip. Drivers, please bring a cooler to put the kids’ lunch in and bring all the boosters you have. Thanks!
Curriculum
Language Arts
Reading Strategies—cross checking: Check the pictures and context to see if you read correctly. Does it make sense? Does it sound right?
Writers’ Workshop:
We will publish our small moment story this week. We will also going to read some non-fiction book to learn about the text features of non-fiction books.
Math
We will learn about 3-dimensional shapes for next two weeks. We will learn about attributes of spheres, cubes, cones and cylinders.
Science
We will start our last PBL about animals this coming week. We will choose an animal we want to learn more about and1 brainstorm questions.
Bible
We will go back to the Old Testament and learn about Samuel and the Kings: Samuel’s birth; Samuel’s call; Israel wants a king and Saul anointed
We will learn about the fruits of the sprit throughout the year. For the month of May, we will learn about the fruit of self-control.