Looking Ahead:

• May 19-23: End of year assessments catch up for absent students
• 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.
  If your child is eating school lunch, you will need to pre-pay online or at the front office ($2.00 for full price or $0.40 for reduced).
• 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: “Reread” and “Topic and Details”. We read several different texts to go along with our theme: “Protect Our Earth: What ideas can you suggest to protect the environment?”

High Frequency Words (Power Words): Review #31-40

Sound and spelling review: introduced long /o/ (spelled o and o_e), long /u/ (spelled u and u_e) and reviewed long /a/ and long /i/ (spelled a_e and i_e)

Vocabulary: environment, protect, encourage, recycle, wisely

Science: After a brief review of the “Circle of Seasons” unit, students observed and described different kinds of weather that arctic foxes experience. Then we analyzed data about the weather where they live to identify seasonal patterns. We compared this to the weather data our class recorded during each season of our school year and found similarities and differences between the two!