Week 31

Dear Parents,

        It’s hard to believe we only have six more weeks of school. We are going to keep learning new, and interesting things right up to the end of school. In math we finished up our unit on fractions and began our unit on three dimensional figures. Your child needs to be able to count faces, edges and vertices for the solid shapes: cube, rectangular prism, triangular prism, sphere, cone, and cylinder. We had fun working with table groups examining these shapes!

         In writing we finished up our poetry unit and began putting together our poetry books! We are so excited to share our work with you. Some students are ready to publish their books, but others may need to finish a poem or two. Look forward to reading these special books soon!

          In social studies we’ve been learning all about our local, state and federal governments. We read about them, highlighted the important things our government does for us and wrote about them in a flip book. We learned who our Mayor, Governor, and President are. We then made a federal government tree and had to sort the jobs of the three branches of government.

           In science we have been watching caterpillars in our room. They made a chrysalis about a week ago. We read that they usually take two weeks to become butterflies, but about 8 days later two of them emerged! We have been studying animal characteristics. We observed models of teeth, eyes, ears, feet, and body coverings. We discussed how these helped the animals survive. We looked at the many types of beaks that birds have. We discovered how the shape of the beak helped them catch or eat a certain type of food. We even used everyday objects like tweezers, staple removers, eye droppers, and hooks to try to pick up certain “foods”. E even created our own super animal choosing the physical characteristics that we wanted.

• A special assignment went home Thursday night in your child’s daily folder. We are working on an animal research project at school for the next four weeks. To go along with this paper, you and your child will research his/her chosen animal and fill out the fact page. You will then use this information to create a diorama of that animal’s habitat. There needs to be everything that animal needs to survive like a water source , vegetation and or prey for that animal. I look forward to seeing your child’s work by April 24^th!

Field Day Colors for T-shirts:

Black Team: Aleena (captain), Somia, Aliyah, Clyde, Carter

Red Team: Veer (captain), Tristen, Liam, Brooklyn

Blue Team: Analise (captain), Alyshan, Jayden, Natalie

Green Team: Anabel (captain), Kaylee, Keon Ho, Nida

*Yearbooks- One More Chance to Order!

We have 47 yearbooks still available to purchase online. The deadline to order online at balfour.com has been extended to April 26 (or until we sell out). Yearbooks will be delivered to the school in late May. The price of a yearbook is $26. Go to Balfour.com and search for Coyote Ridge to order. 

*Book Swap! 

Save the date for our first CRE book swap!  Book donations will be accepted the week of April 23 - April 26th. Then students will have the opportunity to visit the library with their homeroom to select new to them books on May 8, 9, or 10th.  Gather your gently used books to donate for the swap. Our goal is for every student to receive at least one book, whether they donate a book or not. Additional information will be going home in Friday Folders next week.