Week 33

In math, we have learned new strategy games that help teach us addition. This week, we really enjoyed learning how to play Bump.

We have had so much fun counting down the days of school with the alphabet. Game day was a blast!

 We celebrated Cinco de Mayo and learned about the holiday.

Our focus book of the week was a fun rhyming seek and find book. Our sight words were "my" and "with".

We focused on the letter Qq with Quilla the Queen.

We also learned Jj with Jungle Jim.

In science, we began learning about water. We talked about the properties of water and discussed how water moves and flows. 

Some students were motivated to make the water cycle after learning about it.

We had so many interruptions to our learning this week. It gets crazy at the end of the year with testing and extra activities, plays, round-up, etc. I appreciate all of your cards and flowers this week for teacher appreciation week. The DVD the children made is very special. Thank you for your thoughtfulness. I hope you have a very Happy Mother's Day.

Week 32

We had a review week in language arts. We reviewed our letters and sight words this week. Our focus book was If the Dinosaurs Came Back. Some students used that to stem their writing this week.

We read a wonderful story called Library Mouse where a mouse named Sam helps a boy write and illustrate a story together. 

We were excited to choose a buddy and write a story together, just like in the story.

Then we had even more fun sharing our stories with the class.

In math, we were introduced to subtraction. We can use many of the same strategies that we use to solve addition problems too. We are learning to distinguish between addition and subtraction and practiced acting out many story problems. We have been working in our math journals and math workstations.

In science, we finished learning about plants. We had fun labeling the parts of a plant.

We read and learned about butterflies and their life cycle and compared it to other life cycles.

We had fun making puppets to retell the above story. We learned a moral to our story about being a friend.

Sports Day was a blast! Here are some of the fun activities that we did.