Week 34

 Dear Parents,

       This week in math we continued learning about pictographs and bar graphs. We read the title, learned to read the key, noticed if the numbers went up by 1’s, 2’s, 3’s 5’s or 10’s, and learned how to interpret the information to ask our own questions. We took our assessment on Friday.

       In Writing we finished up our class research paper on the Great White Shark. We worked on a special Mother’s Day Project – SHHHHHH. 😊  We began our individual research paper on our chosen animal. We are so excited to work independently to show what we’ve learned.

        In reading/social studies we learned about the rain forest and researched a toucan. We then made a directed drawing of this colorful bird. We did this project for Earth Day and Arbor Day. We read the story Sea Otter Pups and took a comprehension check. We also labeled and colored a map of North America.

        In science we finished reading about animals’ Behaviors and Characteristics and completed a puzzle as a group. We took our unit assessment and began our next unit called Food Chains.

       A BIG thank you to all the parents who contributed to our friendship fruit salad. The children enjoyed it and ate every bit of their large cup of fruit! We even had enough to share with another classroom who didn’t have enough. We showed what good friends we could be. We also had a friendship paper for which we went around looking for friends who liked or did different things. A friendship scavenger hunt! 

      Another big thank you to the parents who wrote the poem on our pillowcase, end of year project. It was greatly appreciated. The pillowcases will go home the last week of school.

       I can’t believe it is already May! Enjoy the weekend with your families.