I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable vacation. I know many students were traveling while others had fun events planned close to home. I sure hope everyone returns well rested! I'm excited to see everyone and hear all about spring break! This week we welcome a new friend into our classroom. Brooke joins us from Averill Park and we are all very excited to meet her!
I spent a few hours in our classroom today tidying up and preparing for our first day back. As I started to refill bins, I noticed that we are in desperate need of replenishing our supply of glue sticks. I will pick some up tomorrow, but if you are out and about tomorrow (or some time this week) and don't mind picking up a few for us to use I would really appreciate it. My guesstimate is that if each child could bring in 5-8 glue sticks, we should be set for the remainder of the year. Thank you in advance!
If you are interested in purchasing a t-shirt for field day, please place the order form and money in your child's folder on Monday. The deadline is quickly approaching. Please note that you are not required to purchase a t-shirt. Yellow is our team color, so if you have a yellow t-shirt at home that will be fine also.
Here's a peek into the week ahead:
Reader's Workshop: This week we will start wrapping up our unit on making inferences. We will most likely end this unit early next week with a fun inference activity that will test our knowledge of Eagle Elementary! This week we will read between the lines to infer setting/scene as well as find "clues" in various reading passages. Here are some photos of the students buddy reading. They are growing each day as readers!
Spelling: Our focus this week will be on contractions. The students will become "contraction surgeons" this week to create contractions and dissect contractions into their two word parts. Here are some pictures of the students matching up compound words.
Writer's Workshop: This will be our last full week of reading and writing our own poems. So far the students have written the following kinds of poems: Acrostic, shape, color, 5 senses, and Emotion. We will begin this week exploring more emotions/feelings and will even try to incorporate some rhyming into our poems. We will also start writing Cinquain and autobiography poems this week as well.
Math: We will continue to think about subtraction as we learn to subtract from a two digit number. The students will have many opportunities to explore some new math games to help them review the concepts learned in topic 11 before completing their next "Show Me."
Science/Social Studies: We finished up our Communities/Mapping unit before vacation. As a culminating activity the students worked together to create a giant map/model of a fictional community. It was so great to see the students take initiative, work together, compromise and come together to produce an extraordinary final project. If you get a moment to pop into school, be sure to check out our map displayed in the hallway under the large bulletin board. Now that the weather is starting to turn a bit nicer, we will pick up with our "seed" unit that we started in the fall. If weather permits, we will spend some time exploring in our garden to see if we can identify plant parts as well as learn their function. We will end the week by planting our very own seeds and watching them germinate.
I'm looking forward to a great week ahead!
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