The Week of April 29th

Can you believe it's May this week?  The year is coming to a close very quickly.  This week we will be finishing our insect unit and starting next week we will start a unit on the Rocky Seashore.
This is one of my favorite units to teach.

In math we will be completing unit 9 after a review of fractions.

Our spelling words this week emphasize the ar combination.  They are far, car, yard, dark, star, start, work, these, sadly and softly.  Bonus words are: colony, praying mantis and monarch butterfly

The Week of April 22nd

This week we will continue with our study of insects.  We have learned what the characteristics of insects are and are learning what adaptations they have to help them survive.  We are also learning about individual insects.

We will be finishing up Unit 5 of our Scott Foresman series.  We only have one unit left! 

Our week will be busy with an assembly to end our character education program and the duck race.

If you have not returned your permission slip for our trip on May 7th please do so.

Our spelling words for the week are: new, grew, drew, blue, true, glue, give, put, fixes and washes.
Our bonus words are: head, thorax and abdomen (which are the three insect body parts!)

The Week of April 15

This week we will begin Unit 9 in math.  We will be using the 100's chart to add and subtract 10's.  Also we will also continue with fractions. 

We will begin studying insects.  The class will be writing an informational text about different insects.  This week we will also be learning about Earth Day.

Watch for a permission trip about our field trip.  We will be going to the State Theatre in Easton on May 7th.

Word Wall Words for the next two weeks are: animals, because, even, better, heard, give, their, most, people and put

Spelling Words feature the different sounds of y : baby, funny, many, my, why, fly, even, most, without, nobody.  Bonus Words are: ladybug, mosquito and dragonfly