Looking Ahead:
- May 12-16: End of year assessments continue
- May 16: Final library day- ALL books due
- May 22: Kindergarten Field Trip to Treehouse Children’s Museum (please note the longer school day: 8:30-12:00)
$6.00 donations are welcome to help with our field trip expenses, including the cost of bus transportation. These optional donations may be paid in the Q1 office or online under “Field Trips” Quest Online Payments - May 23: Dollar Dress Down Day and Yearbook signing day
- May 26: Memorial Day- No School
- May 27: Ms. Lisa’s Kindergarten completion celebration 10:30-11:00 am in the library (parents are invited).
- May 28: Elementary Field Day
- May 29: Elementary Talent Show, 1st grade visit (we will briefly meet the 1st grade teachers), and students will practice eating in the lunchroom
- May 30: Last day of school (free dress down day)
Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:
Comprehension strategy/skill: Ask and Answer Questions and Poetry: Rhyme. We read several different texts to go along with our theme: “Sort It Out: In what ways are things alike? How are they different?”
High Frequency Words (Power Words): come, does
Sound and spelling: practiced long /a/ (spelled a_e) and introduced long /i/ (spelled i_e).
Vocabulary: similar, sort, endless, perfect, experiment
Math: Lesson 25 “Compose and Decompose Teen Numbers with Symbols”
Science: This week we made bird nests. We watched how birds make their nests and raise their chicks and figured out why birds lay their eggs in spring!
If your child is curious about birds, check out the live cam at the Cornell Labs bird feeder here.
You and your child can see what birds are grabbing for a snack right now at this bird feeder in Ithaca, New York. You never know what birds will stop by.