We are still studying oceans this week and we have learned a lot. On Tuesday we made a fish out of an old CD and studied the many different fish that live in the sea. Some of the fish we studied were: angel fish, clown fish, puffer fish, beta fish (actually do not live in the sea but many children have them for pets) and more! On Wednesday we made a Jello Ocean! We took blue Jello, placed it in a cup and added Swedish fish. We studied the different layers of light through the ocean. We made the top layer of ocean where we often swim when we visit the beach and we are able to see many fish because the ocean is closest to the sun. That zone is called the euphotic zone. The bottom layer of the ocean has no light and we may often find fish who do not even have eyes! Today we are making an ocean using a water bottle. We will study the different layers of the ocean as we add sand, blue water, oil and confetti fish. Fun, fun! We have also started learning our ocean play songs and practicing our lines.
Literacy:
We had our last writer's workshop pertaining to our unit on author's as mentors. It was great to study the different writing styles of other author's but we are excited to move on! We are also still studying story elements. Yesterday we did a character sort between the Commotion in the Ocean book and Goldiclocks and the Three Bears book. Today we will do a sort of characters VS setting.
Math:
We are really working hard on addition. We are using many different strategies to solve addition problems. On Tuesday we partnered up and completed several math problems. Wednesday we worked for almost an hour on range cards (record set there!). Today is the park day so we will solve addition problems as a whole group and have a mini math talk before we head to the park.
ANNOUNCMENTS:
**Do not forget to order Scholastic books if you wish! This will probably be our last order for the year and you will want to stock up on lots of books for the summer! :)
**Please return all "little readers" that your children bring home to read to you. We have a lot of books still missing and we will need those back before we are out on summer break. Thank you for your help with this!
**Please do not forget to practice the play lines with your child each night. We are all super busy right now, but this is important! The correct lines were sent home yesterday and highlighted for your child with their lines. If you had the incorrect copy, I took it out and gave your child the correct one. If they already had the correct copy, I just left it! Sorry for the original confusion.
*We will head to the Laurel's on May 13th. If you can help with this, sign up when the sign up genius goes out for that week. Please also look for conference signs up soon. I would really like to meet with all of you this time! :) Conferences will most likely be the week of May 12th-23rd. I will do my best to get that out soon and offer a variety of times for your convenience!
*May 9th is a half day. May 15th is a half day and May 16th we have no school. May 26th will not have school as well.
*The Author's Tea will be held in our classroom on May 29th at 1:30. This will be a blast! Each child will be able to reveal their bare book to you and show you all their hard work!
Sign up genius: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0C4FA5A82BA4FF2-my5thmay
Commotion in the Ocean Play: May 20th at 11:00 (just another reminder to put it on the calendar)
Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz
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