Week 34

 Dear Parents,

         This week in math we have been having fun making  bar graphs, pictographs and charts. We have been answering questions as well as writing what we notice about these graphs. We even had a challenge to see who could finish a page by the end of math and get all the answers correct. We earned a $10 bonus if we did! 

          In writing we wrote our end of year paper to a prompt. It was scored on a five point rubric as our end of year assessment. We then continued our research about Great White Sharks. We listened two multiple sources to get our facts to add to our R.A.N. Chart. We began drafting our paper by using the facts we put on our chart. We wrote about what Great White Sharks look like and where they live.

            In Social Studies/ Reading we learned more about consumers and producers by watching a video. We then took a quiz by sorting cards as a producer or consumer. All of them did very well so I gave the class a $3 bonus! We then did a project called a circle- rama that showed our knowledge about producers and consumers. We then watched a video that showed us many landforms and the different types of natural water features we can see on Earth. We then began another project as a flip book that showed some of these features. We finished the week with a scholastic News called “The Butterflies Are Back”.

           Science was so exciting this week as our butterfly larvae were huge on Monday as they ate all weekend. By Tuesday they were starting to crawl to the lid to attach themselves. On Wed. two of them wriggled out of their skin and became a chrysalis. By the end of Thursday all were in Chrysalis form. Into the butterfly house they went as we wait for them to emerge as adult butterflies. We had several projects we were working on all week that reinforced the life cycles of frogs and butterflies.

            The children are starting to have a bit of summer fever. Please help me by talking to your children about finishing strong. We have several fun things coming up in these last few weeks: Our Spring Musical, Our Field Trip, Our Awards Ceremony, and Our End of Year Movie Party during which they use their earned income to buy a movie ticket, drinks, snacks and treats.