Newsletter April 26 - April 30

 I hope you are all enjoying your rainy afternoon--it's dry and so any rain is gladly received even if that means inside break all day. 🙈

ME on the Map project

Here are this week's happenings:

his weekWe had spring pictures today--I sent only those students who sent in money or informed me to send their child after making an online payment.

• We have our end of the year DIBELS test on May 6--we are winding down just 4 1/2 weeks left of school.
• In math today we started learning about adding ones or tens to a two digit number (43 + 3 = or 42 + 40 =). We modeled these problems today using tens and ones.  Tomorrow we will use a hundreds chart and will eventually line them up vertically and first add the ones and then the tens.  We will also do this with subtraction. 
• In reading we will finish up our 6th unit tomorrow and start our last unit on Wednesday.  In the last unit we will learn some more vowel combinations such as 'oa' and read from a book called Kay and Martez.  In writing we will writing a "How to" paragraph before the end of the year.
• We are continuing to learn about the history of the earth.  Today we learned about minerals and reviewed volcanoes and geysers. 
• Some things that will be happening at the end of the year--the first or second week of May we will be observing eggs hatch.  The 4-H will bring incubators and eggs and by the end of the week we'll have chicks.  The new chicks can be purchased--I will let you know a price if you are interested.  Though I just told my students today that I have only had 2 students buy chicks in 10 years and they both had farms and were set up for chicks--so they are prepared for your answer. On Friday, May 21 we will have our "field day"--since we need to have a different sort of field day we will walk up to the canyon park--first walk the trail and then play on the playground.  We will also have a BBQ that day for lunch (outside if weather permits)--all students have free breakfast and lunch for the remainder of the year and the BBQ will be included in that.  The last day of school will be Wednesday, May 26--we will dismiss as normal at 1:30 that day. 
• I will send home a final Scholastic book order this week.  Those will be due next Wednesday, May 5.  I still think you can choose to either have the books sent to your house or to the school (if you order a certain $ amount). 

HAPPY READING--please continue to take advantage of the take home books--I know it's harder this year because if you miss the turn in day or Thursday/Friday then you really miss a whole week--but it really helps to read daily and on your child's independent reading level. 

Mrs. Armstrong