Welcome to another beautiful week! This time of the year is always so bittersweet...it is a time to reflect on how much the students have learned, keeping in mind our days together are also numbered. It makes me proud and sad at the same time! I hope the students skip those sad feelings and only feel proud of their hard work.
Just an FYI...I will be out on Wednesday and Mrs. Flanagan will be with the boys and girls. I will be visiting another school to observe a possible phonics program NDLC may be interested in using in the future. Mrs. Flanagan is so happy she will get to see the boys and girls before they move on to 1st grade!
Upcoming Dates and Reminders:
May 22: Family Night
May 26: NO SCHOOL
May: 29: NO SCHOOL
May 30: Sportswear Day
May 31: Crazy/Odd Sock Day
June 1: Wear Orange
June 2: Dress Like Your Parents Day
June 5: Backwards Clothes Day
June 6: Sunglasses Day
June 7: Wear Bright Clothes/Last Day of School-11:30 Dismissal
Here is a peek at our week:
Reading: This week we will kick off our final reading unit of the year! It is called "Readers Get to Know Characters By Performing Their Books." This unit will focus on reading to understand story structure and character actions. much like the emergent story book unit we did at the beginning of the year. The big difference will now be that we can conventionally read stories and then study the characters. This week we will use the cover, title and sequence of the story to learn more about characters and their feelings. We will also learn to put ourselves in the character's shoes to help us better understand character feelings and how they change.
Writing: Our true story unit is up and running and I am so happy that many of the things we worked on in Writing Bootcamp are habits the students are carrying over to their writing. This week we will review the all of the spelling strategies we have worked on this past year: stretching words out sound by sound, using vowels and using blends. We will use the beloved story Knuffle Bunny to study as a mentor text. We will look to see how the author, Mo Willems, using a beginning, setting an ending when writing a story.
Math: Fact fluency and skill maintenance will again be our focus in math this week. The boys and girls have been using flashcards in the classroom to become more automatic with their +/- facts up to 5 and are challenging themselves to move away from using fingers when solving these equations.
We will also be reviewing shapes and working on sorting equations according to whether their total is less than, equal to or greater than 10. We will also be reviewing the concept of comparing groups of objects using those terms.
Science: This week we will design and make our own balls using what we have learned in this science unit so far. Students will use a variety of materials to do this and will definitely have to do some predicting and testing to explore and discover the attributes of their creations. We will also begin exploring ramps. We will build background knowledge on this by searching for places around school ramps are used and also by watching videos of some common ramps.
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