May 20th to May 24th

Notes: Just a few reminders:

Monday: College T-shirt Day

Thursday: All School Field Trip ( Please wear your College T-shirts)

Friday:  Students that bring in $1 can be out of uniform for the day and the proceeds will go to the Leo Club Relay for Life team! Please bring in your $1 by the morning of Friday, May 24th to be eligible for the non-uniform day.

Language Arts: This week we will be reading Us Two, Pete at the Zoo and My Shadow. All of the poems we will be reading this week are about companions and we will be discussing what makes a good friend.

Throughout the week we will be doing different activities and crafts to go along with this story. We will also be discussing this story and talking more in depth about what we read.

Letter Sounds: Long vowel sounds.

Decodables: No decodable this week

Math: This week we will be focusing on using scales to balance and weigh different objects and starting to tell time.

Math Centers Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. The centers are planned to reinforce our daily objectives and to meet the needs of all learners in the classroom.

Core Knowledge: Ms. Sather's class will be in Mrs. Makela's room to learn all about history. Check out Mrs. Makela's link for this weeks Core knowledge updates.https://sites.google.com/site/mrsmakelasclass/

This week we will be finishing up our plant unit talking about George Washington Carver. The next unit we will be talking about is all about the earth. We will be talking about how to take care of earth and what things we can do to reduce waste.

Homework:

*Read 20 minutes every night
*Practice adding numbers up to the #10
*Subtracting #'s 10 and less
*Review High Frequency Words Grade K
*Practice IXL