Weekly Updates May 2-5

Hello,
Happy May! Here's hoping May brings warmer temperatures as we move towards the end of the year! May homework calendars and blank literacy calendars will be coming home today. 

Upcoming Events:

May 12: Family Night 5:30-7:00-A note will be coming home today
May 20: Community Walking Tour Field Trip-A note will be coming home soon

May 26: Early Dismissal 

May 27-May 30: No School

May 31: Mini Courses

June 1: Field Day

June 2: Last day of school for students. Early Dismissal

Curriculum Updates:

Readers' Workshop: We are continuing our nonfiction study. This week we will continue to work on determining what's important by using the "5 W's (and H)" Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?, putting information together by noticing how sections fit together, and coming up with our own ideas about what we're learning by thinking, "The idea I'm having is..." or "I think..."

Writers' Workshop: We are getting ready to publish our series books. Students have worked hard to create fiction characters, give their characters a problem and add details to make their stories come to life. We will be working on adding in punctuation, making our writing readable, using our favorite authors to give us ideas about what we can add to our stories, and use our illustrations to tell important details.

Word Study: We will continue to work on using all of our words from this year. Our goal is to not only write them isolation, but also spell them correctly in our writing. We have also been adding many new poems to our poem binders!

Math Workshop: Last we practiced telling and writing time to the hour and half hour. Telling the difference between the hour and minute hand can be tricky sometimes, so keep practicing at home. This week we will begin to explore shapes. We'll learn about the properties of squares, other rectangles, triangles, and circles. We'll also split shapes into equal parts and compose 2-dimensional shapes.

Social Studies: We are continuing our study of communities. This week we will be learning about community helpers, neighborhoods and maps. We will be exploring our playground and drawing a map using a birds eye view.