We celebrated the day before vacation with a whole-school assembly in the gym. The theme was respect. Sensei Ethan from the Elite Free Style Karate School in Bedford was our special speaker. He talked a lot about how important respect is and how we can use our eyes, words, and actions to show respect to friends, teachers, and family.
The students finished their individual innovations called One, Two, Three, Four. These went home yesterday in their folders. I would encourage the children to read them as often as possible and be sure to point to the words as they read. It is a wonderful way to reinforce their sight words in context. The students did a great job thinking of different adjectives to describe the animals in their books.
We started a new writing unit! Students will be writing narratives (stories about themselves) in a Writer’s Workshop format. They got their folders set up this week and got a great start on their first stories! It was exciting for me to see how excited they were to get started!
We finished our math topic working with teen numbers and will move on to numbers up to 100 after vacation!
I would encourage you and your child to work a lot on their sight words and math fluency facts over vacation. May is a big assessment month for us and I will be checking students on both of these skills during the next few weeks. I would also encourage you to read, read, read as much as possible!
We will be starting our nature unit when we return from our spring break and will be learning about life cycles, trees, seeds, and insects. We will also be making observations about the signs of spring we see outside. We will be taking pictures of different places around the school over a 4-6 week period and comparing the pictures every week to see how nature changes. It may be a fun project for you to do at home too! I would love to see the pictures when you are done if you do decide to do it! We actually went for our first nature walk today and took some pictures that we will add to over the next several weeks. The students also painted forsythia branches this week. The paintings definitely make our classroom look more spring-ish!
I hope you have a fantastic, fun-filled, and relaxing week of vacation. I look forward to hearing all the students' stories when they return!
Have a great week!
Melanie Duncan
PS… We will be going to the library the Wednesday after vacation. Be sure to return your child’s library book.
Wishlist items: large brown paper bags with handles, brown and black yarn, a bag of cotton balls, and tin foil
I double checked on our last day of school… because we had one snow day, our last day will be on Thursday, June 20th. It will be a half day of school.
Sensei Ethan
Mrs. McDonald broke a piece of wood with her hand!!!
Forsythia Branches
On our nature walk....looking for signs of spring!
Relay race during the assembly. Our team won!
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