Happy Friday!
What a wonderful last full
week of April we had! :) We had great weather for Outdoor Classroom
Week! The students worked so incredibly hard on their writing, we
finished up our Earth changes unit by discovering what humans can do to effect
our ecosystem, we started taking about food chains, and we finished up our Unit
8 in math. Whew! We had a busy week!!
As the school year comes to close, there are a lot of special
activities make sure to check out the Upcoming Special Dates to make sure that
they are on your calendar!
Upcoming Special Dates
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May 8 – PTA Meeting
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May 11 - Variety Show
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May 15 - Runge Field
Trip
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May 16 - Field Day
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May 18 - Lunch Bunch
(11:00-11:30) & Writing Celebration (11:30-12:00)
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May 18 - Wear Your
Favorite Color Day
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May 22 - Last Day of
School (early dismissal)
Lunch Bunch &
Writing Celebration
The kiddos are working so
incredibly hard on their Which is Better books - make sure to read the
"Writing" section below to see what we are doing. As a
celebration of all their hard work we will be having a Lunch Bunch &
Writing Celebration on May 18. Lunch Bunch will start at 11:00 and we
will be eating at the pavilion, and then at 11:30 we will come back to the
classroom for our Writing Celebration. For the Lunch Bunch, you can
either bring a special lunch from home or a restaurant to enjoy with your child
or you buy lunch from the cafeteria. At 11:30, we will come back to the
classroom so that you can see all the awesome Which is Better projects!
Look What's Been
Happening in Moss World!
Math
- What we
did this week: We completed our Unit 8 in math. There are
only nine units...we are SO close to being complete with our Everyday Math
lessons! The focus of Unit 8 was geometry and arrays and we
took our post test on Wednesday. The kiddos did so great on this
test! This assessment came home on Thursday. If you did not review
it with your child, sign it, and send the test back to school with your
child today - please do so on Monday. We ask you to sign &
return just so that we know that you are seeing how your child did.
- What we
will do next week: We started Unit 9 today with
partitioning a square, rectangle, and circle into halves (2 equal parts),
thirds (3 equal parts), and fourths (4 equal parts), Next week, we
will continue to talk about equal groups, and then move on to measuring to
the nearest half inch and expanded form.
Writing
- What we
did this week: We have been chugging along on publishing our
Which is Better writing. This is one of our bigger writing
activities, and the students will have an opportunity to make an
additional project to go along with their writing. We talked about
different project ideas today and a paper is coming home in your child's
Friday Folder (or
you can click here to view the paper). We will have some arts
supplies at school, but your child's project idea might require an
additional item from home. We have told students that they do NOT
have to bring in materials and that there are plenty of fun and creative
projects that they can do with what we are providing. Over
the weekend, please have a conversation with your child about what project
s/he is wanting to do. If materials from home are needed, we are
asking for all materials to be at school no later than Tuesday, May 1.
- What we
will do next week: Any students that have not
completed their publishing of the Which is Better book will finish
publishing,and students who have a completed book will start their
project.
Reading
- What we
did this week: We started talking about cause and effect in
literature. We read If You Give a Mouse a Brownie and
saw how one action led to another action, that led to another action, and
so on. We also read Chrysanthemum and realized that
one person's actions can effect another person in either a positive way or
a not so positive way.
- What we
will do next week: We will finish up talking about
cause and effect and then start talking about poetry.
Word Study
- What we
did this week: We are almost finished with learning about
different word study patterns. This week we talked about ore, and
oar words.
- What we
will do next week: We will have our last
r-influenced words with ure, ur_e, and ur words.
Next weeks words are: sure, lure, pure, cure, curve,
curse, purse, nurse, blurt, turkey. Next week will
be our last week for spelling words. For the last few weeks of
school we will be reviewing grammar rules.
Science
- What we
did this week: We finished up our Earth changes unit by talking
about humans can impact of effect the ecosystem. We talked about
pollution, construction, logging, and hunting. The kiddos made a
flip book that hanging up in the classroom - if you are school you should
check out what they have learned! We also started talking about food
chains. All food chains start with the sun because the sun gives
energy to the producers (plants). Then a primary consumer eats the
producer. There can also be a secondary, tertiary, and other
consumers in a food chain. We also discussed that a food chain has a
decomposer, and that some food chains even have a scavenger. Make
sure to check out the pictures of the kiddos making food chains outside
today down in the picture section! :)
- What we
will do next week: We continue to talk about food
chains, and living organisms.
Nutrition Class
The kiddos love
when Mrs. Zapata comes in and teaches Nutrition! They are learning SO
much!! :) This week they had an opportunity to try oranges, guavas and
pineapples. Check out the picture section to see the kiddos enjoying
their tasting party!
Outdoor Classroom Week
Outdoor Classroom
Week was a success! A huge thank you to Emily Reynolds who heads this
week up every year! On Tuesday, we went on a tour of the Outdoor
Classroom and people from the Missouri Department of Conservation and Urban Gardens
teach us a little about the prairie, pond, butterfly garden, woods, and
garden. Then on Thursday, we had our Outdoor Classroom service project of
mulching the pathways of the garden. There are lots of pictures below
from both activities - make sure you check them out!
Pictures From the Week!
