May 27-30

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:

Field Day has been postponed to Tuesday, June 10 instead of today due to inclement weather.

Remember the LAST HOMEWORK PACKET of the year will be due on Thursday!  Please remind your child to put it in their backpack on Wednesday evening.

Calling all paper towel rolls and toilet paper rolls!  Please send whatever you have at home.  We'll need it for the finishing touches on our wildlife biologist project.

HUGE thank you to all of you who were able to send in modeling clay for us to use!  We truly appreciate your generosity!  

THIS WEEK IN...

Phonics:  We are working with r-controlled vowels.  Here are the new patterns we are practicing:  /ar/, /are/ and /air/.  Our focus words are:  star, dare, shark, hair, care, pair, stare, chair, rare, and fair.

Vocabulary:  Our new words are creating, memories, familiar, imagination, glamorous, and occasions.  We'll define them and build connections to them.  Then, we'll search for them in the short story called Making Stories Happen.  

Comprehension:  This week we will focus on drawing conclusions.  This means we will make decisions about the text based on the pictures and the words and what we already know.  We'll do this while we read Stirring Up Memories by Pam Munoz Ryan.

Writing:  We are putting the finishing touches on our animal report final drafts.  We have been challenging ourselves to write in paragraphs!  Whenever we introduce a new idea, we have a new paragraph.  A new paragraph always starts on a new line.  There is always an indent at the beginning of the paragraph.  We'll also be creating a colorful, neat, and detailed cover page!

Grammar:  We will be working with articles.  Articles are "a" and "an".  We use "a" before a word that starts with a consonant sound and "an" before a word with a vowel sound.  For example:  a story, a cat, a firefighter, an apple, an ending, an umbrella.

Math:  We will continue our flexible groups for adding and subtracting within 100 with a focus on word problems.  We will also work on odd and even numbers, arrays, and measurement.  

Science:  We are continuing to use our weather tools to gather information about the daily weather.  We are tracking the temperature, air pressure, wind speed, wind direction, and amount of precipitation.