May 16th-20th

Announcements:

** Bare Book Tea: May 24th at 1:00 in our classroom
** Water Day" May 31st 9-11 outside on the blacktop
**Last Day of School: June 1st
**I am holding optional end of year conferences May 25th (all day) in my room. If you would like to sign up for one, just send me an email and I will schedule you!

Hello,

It's been a great week!

Math Workshop:

This week we worked on finishing our range cards, playing review math tub games and working on addition/subtraction story problems!

Reader's Workshop:

This week we learned a new sight word: some. We also learned about characters, main events and settings in different books we were reading. We also received our last set of leveled books! Don't forget to review these words each week with your child!

Writer's Workshop:

We are working on finishing our bare books and editing our books that go inside the envelopes in the bare books.

Thematic Unit:

We are still studying oceans! This week we made a "T Chart" and compared what fish need and what humans need. We saw lots of differences but some similarities too! We also completed the writing prompt "If I could be any sea animal I would be _______ because______." We wrote this in our day books.

Book Buddies;

This week we met with our book buddies and played two new math games with them.

1. Race to 20:
 Roll the dice and move your marker that many spaces. The first one to get to 20 on the two ten frames wins.

2. Make One Dollar:
Roll the dice, and whatever number you roll, that's how much money you get. Example: I rolled a 6 so I get 6 cents. Everyone is combining their money together and when it equals $1 the game is over. There are pennies, quarters, nickles and dimes. So you also want to exchange each time you roll for the least amount of coins. Example: If I have 15 cents so far, instead of keeping 15 pennies, I would exchange for 1 dime and 1 nickle. This took some thinking!!

Happy weekend!
Mrs. Schultz