Week of May 13-17

Hello Parents!

We had such a fun week in the light blue room! Bike day was a bug success and we had so much fun out and about around our school!

We loved the bike presentation!

In reading this week we finished our unit on Fables. We read The Tortoise and the Hare, The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Lion and the Mouse and The Hen and the Apple Tree. W learned that fables teach us a lesson and we really enjoyed hearing these short stories!  We also learned some new reading strategies and comprehension strategies to use while we are reading. At this point in the year it is so fun to see how far the kiddos have come as readers!

In writing this week we worked on using spaces between words, stretching our words out and also sticking to our tiny moment stories. When focusing so much on spacing and sounding out words, students can sometimes forget to stick to writing about a small moment. They did awesome this week! We will have a Writer's Celebration this Wednesday and Thursday. In June we will move into Poetry.

The blue room friends helped us with our surveys about what we want to be when we grow up.

In math this week we continued to work on math partners, specifically partners of 7 and 10. We have been working on this skill for quite some time and students are doing wonderful with this! These little mathematicians are flying and I am so proud of them!

In science this week we made a worm habitat together! We designed a home for our worms and provided them with food and water. As a class, we talked about what worms need to survive, how they move and why. We came up of a list of questions we want to investigate with the worms and made predictions about what is going to happen. (This marks the beginning of thinking with the Scientific Process.) The question the students decided on is "What will the worms do if we give them watermelon, a cookie, dirt and water?" We will be investigating this on Monday in small groups.

We had so much fun making the worm habitat!

Notes/Reminders:

-this is the last week for Spelling Tests. Spelling will take place this Thursday and will not continue through June

-Synergy Day this Friday!

Have a great week!

Ms. Monica