You're invited to Muffins with Mom! Muffins with Mom will take place on Friday, May 19th in the MPR. Students will be brought down around 8:15, and we would love if you joined us for some quality time, muffins, coffee and tea with your child! An invitation went home in red folders today!
A-Z countdown: This teacher goofed this week! Monday we will combine F and G!
Monday - F & G - Reading by Flashlight and Games! Please send your student in with their favorite book and a flashlight!
Tuesday - H - How to Day - We will watch a fun video on how things we use every day are made!
Wednesday - I - Ice Cream Day! I'd love if you could donate ice cream sandwiches or ice cream cups to our classroom for this day!
Thursday - J - Joke Day! Students will bring in their favorite joke, and we will spend some time sharing them and giggling!
Friday - K - Kindness Day ! We will do an act of kindness :]
Here's a glimpse of what happened this week in the classroom:
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| On Wednesday instead of sitting in a faculty meeting, we got to play P.E.! Parachute and dodgeball! |
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| Working on our persuasive writing! |
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| Bring your favorite book day was a hit among all! |
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Healthy snack day: Protein style!
Here is a look at our learning for the upcoming week:
Language arts: Next week in grammar we will work on a top secret project! We will brainstorm and go through the writing process to write a paragraph sure to make your heart feel all warm and fuzzy! We will continue memorizing the poem Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield. Students are doing a wonderful job reciting stanzas 1-3 with expression and inflection, while standing up straight and proud! We will read a story title Narcissus and differentiate between listening to another person, and hearing what we want to hear. We will identify situations in which someone is not listening, and examine our own abilities to listen to others. Ask your child what our class came up with to the questions 'what does it mean to be a good listener?'. In literature we will continue to explore how the Ingall's family makes maple sugar, and even sample some of the real stuff! We will read chapters 8 and 9 and identify what different animal tracks look like!
Math: In math next week we are taking it WAY back to the beginning of the year! We will spend a day reviewing important concepts we learned in first semester. We will refresh our brains on mental math, multiplication, division, and measurement.
History: Students will compare Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, and how the war ended for each of these men. You can ask your history buff to explain how General Sherman and his men helped lead the Union to Victory (but please wait until the end of the week, because believe it or not, some students can't figure out how the war ended and are sitting on pins and needles each history lesson!).
Science: Next week we will conclude our Biography unit through learning about an African-American doctor who performed the first successful open heart surgery! Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was a surgeon who helped set up a teaching hospital in Chicago. It was the first hospital in Chicago to have African-American doctors and nurses on its staff. ALL patients were treated well there. We have truly enjoyed learning about these important people in Science and discussing the virtues they each possess.
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