End of April!!!

It is crazy to think this is the last week of April! My heart is starting to beat fast thinking of this school year being over and all the learning and fun projects we still need to do!! I came back to school last Wednesday and with all of the fun Earth Day and Lorax activities it was kind of a whirlwind! I am hoping that this week I can get back in to a good routine both at school and at home! The kids were all so nice when I got back and asked about Marty. Below is a video of pictures of Mr. Marty!

In Literacy we will be starting our final Unit – yep that’s right Unit 10! My friends will be super pumped to see our last crabby book! We will be talking about what can happen when we work together! We will be reading “What’s the Big Idea, Molly?”,  "The Elves and the Shoemakers", "The Variety Show", and in our crabby books "A Good Time For Luke". During guided reading your child will either read Animal Band or We Want Honey. We will be sequencing parts of a story and making, confirming and revising our predictions. Our vocabulary words are decide, marvel, opinion, ragged, and grateful. We will be focusing on the long u vowel sound and the words good and who and looking for sentence clues and questioning words. We will be practicing writing our kindergarten words, and retelling the details from the stories we are reading!

Ms. Bailey did a great job of teaching all of the Unit 5 skills and when I got back we took our test so that means that this week we will be starting unit 6 in math - where we will start learning more about money, time, and measurement!

This week we will wrap up our plant unit and hopefully get everything finished! We have loved learning about plants and how to take care of them!!! Our Lorax projects and movie night turned out great and hopefully I will get a video up sometime this week featuring pictures of our fun week last week! We will be planting a vegetable seed this week too if we are lucky!

In writing we will be working hard on our stories. We are working hard on adding details to our words and pictures to match our stories and also using our best handwriting and taking our time. In a few weeks we will be taking our writing test to show the first grade teachers how awesome of writers we are!

This Tuesday the 26th is a PLC day and our field trip to Chet Ager Nature Center where we will be exploring nature and the changing seasons! We also get to wear our cool shirts we made, ride the bus and eat lunch either in our classroom or outside when we get back to school! I honestly don’t know a better way to start our week! It is sure to be a great time and I can't wait to explore nature with my friends!

Marty's video...