May 30-June 2

Few reminders: 

• Please return any school books that you may find around your house. 
• Please turn in your field day form letting us know if your child will take hot or cold lunch! 
• If you have any Box Tops, please turn them in by Friday, June 2nd. 

Upcoming events:
G 5/30 Go Team! Wear your favorite sports gear
O 5/31 Odd/crazy sock day
O 6/1 Orange Colors
D 6/2 Dads and moms (dress like your parents)
B 6/5 Backwards clothes day
Y 6/6 You’re so bright (wear sunglasses)
E 6/7 Extra bright clothes/Last Day of School-11:30
June 11: Timber Rattlers Game 1:00

A peek at our week: 

Reading:  Our book clubs have been a HUGE hit! I love walking around the room and hearing the students acting out pages, making their voices match the character feelings, and giggling through it all. They are really getting to know their books and characters well in this playful way. At the end of the week, we will celebrate by acting out our favorite books. It will be quite the show! 

Writing:  ATTENTION! Writing boot camp is back in Room 82 this week! Writers will be reminded of all the different genres they learned about this year and choose what they would like to write about each day. Writers will goal set and use the charts from the entire year to make their writing great! 

Math: We will explore measuring and comparing this week using inventory bags. The inventory bags are Ziploc baggies filled with an assortment of materials and different number materials. We will rotate through the following centers:

• Inventory bags: The kids choose a bag of items and then count and record the number of items they found.  They also need to check the counting strategy they have used to determine that.  
• Comparing Inventory Bags:   For this activity children will compare 2 inventory bags by dumping them on a divided tray and then organizing and comparing the contents of them.  They then will fill out a sheet that uses comparing words to record their findings.
• Ten Stick Measuring:  Each child needs to build a 10 stick with unifix cubes and will be using it to measure items around the room and find and record things that are longer and shorter around the room.  They should draw/write more than one thing on each side of the paper.  
• A______is longer than a_____________ :   kids are using colored pencils to make comparison drawings of objects they know and then   (Ex.  A ruler is longer than an eraser). There are also a_________is shorter than a__________ pages for them to complete, they can staple together all of the pages they make into a booklet.  

Word Study:  We've been using our word study time to write a class book. As we write together, students practice making sure their writing has: 

• Sight words written correctly
• Vowels
• Uppercase letters at the beginning of the sentence
• Lowercase letters for the rest
• Punctuation

Keep working on all of these skills this summer! 

Science: The scientists will think about the following questions:

• What do you know about balls? 
• What do you know about ramps? 

Then, we will use that knowledge to think of own experiment to do. They will use the scientific method to observe, think of a question, make a hypothesis, test the experiment, and share what you learned. We will share what we learned by making videos of the ramps we build and tests we run.