May 19-23

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:

Tonight is the Spring Concert!  It will begin at 6 p.m. at the GNG Middle School.  I hope to see everyone there!

Homework packets are due on Thursday!  Please remind your child to put it in their backpacks on Wednesday evening.  Remember, no homework packets = no free choice Friday!

Mrs. Thibodeau will be coming to our classroom this week!  We will be watching the good touch/bad touch video that you received information about.  If you would like more information, please contact Mrs. Thibodeau.  

CALLING ALL SHOEBOXES!  We will be needing shoeboxes to create diaramas of our animal habitats.  Please send in one shoebox for you child.  If you have any extras that you would like to send in, that would be great!  Please send them in by Friday May 23.  I’ll send home a paper reminder as well tomorrow.  

CLASSROOM WISHLIST:  We will be needing molding clay for our animal projects.  If you are willing and able to donate some molding clay to our classroom, it would be greatly appreciated!  Please send in any donations by Friday, May 23.  

THIS WEEK IN...

Phonics:  We are working with the /j/ sound with the spelling patterns -dge, -ge, -lge, -nge, and -rge.  Here are our focus words:  cage, page, judge, lodge, large, barge, bulge, change, range, and hinge.  

Vocabulary:  Our new words are:  menu, fetch, forgetting, simmered, assembled, and devoured.  We will define these words and build connections to them. Then, we will listen for them in the short story called Bobo’s Celebration by Keith Fish.

Comprehension:  We will be focusing on story elements.  We’ll be searching for the title, characters, setting, plot, problem, solution, and moral.  We will practice this skill while we read Mice and Beans by Pam Munoz Ryan.  

Grammar:  This week’s focus will be on adjectives.  Adjectives are words that describe a noun.  

Writing:  We are working on completing our rough drafts of our animal reports.  Once Team Blowey finishes their rough drafts, they will be rereading their work to look for areas where they can revise and edit.  For example, they are making sure they have complete sentences that are interesting and focused on the topic.  They will be looking for capital letters where they belong and correct ending punctuation.  They will also be looking for any words that they could change to make their writing more interesting.

Math:  We will continue our flexible math groups where students will be practicing adding and subtracting within 100 with a focus on word problems.  We will also continue our work with measurement, time, money, and math facts.  My hope is to also incorporate our last couple math standards into the mix.  The last few standards are:

Students will be able to:

-Identify numbers as odd or even and write a doubles number sentence       to represent an even number (equal teams) or a near doubles number sentence to represent on odd number (unequal teams).  

-Write a repeated number addition sentence to find out the total number               of squares in an array.  This is the foundation for multiplication.

Science:  This week, we will begin using the weather tools that we built to track the weather.  We will be using a thermometer, anemometer, barometer, rain gauge, and a wind vane.  By the end of our experiment, Team Blowey should demonstrate understanding that weather changes everyday.

I hope everyone has a lovely week!