June 7th

Hi Parents,

This week in writing we continued our work with Eric Carle books. We read and retold two more of his stories. The first was "The Very Busy Spider" and the second was "The Greedy Python". We continued to work on our writing through free writes during literacy centers as well.
We also worked on creating new goals for our writing as we go into grade 2. We discussed some things that we could be working on and then students went and looked through their work to decide on a new writing goal for themselves.

We continued to work on our words of the week through literacy centers and word work activities.

In Math this week we introduced measurement. We discussed what measurement means, what we can use to measure things and why it is important to know how to measure. We also discussed a variety of jobs in our communities that use measurement regularly. We were then given an opportunity to practice measuring a variety of items around the classroom using non standard measurement. This week we were using Unifix Cubes to help us measure the classroom items.

In Science we discussed the difference between wild and domesticated animals. We then sorted these animals into groups in a Venn diagram as we know that some animals are wild, some are domesticated and some can be both.  We also started to discuss animal classes and what makes animals a part of these classes. This week we learned about the characteristics of mammals and then came up with some examples of mammals that we know.

We continued our animal art. This week we learned how to draw a bear and a panda bear. We love learning how to draw all the animals we researched at the zoo. If you are interested in drawing other things at home the website is below!
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=art+hub+for+kids

We were lucky enough to have Michael Mitchell come in on Monday afternoon for a concert. We got to watch and sing along with him.

This week was our last week at the library. All library books must be back to the library by Friday June 14th. 

We had our second session of Club Friday. We have one more Club Friday left for this year!

Reminders:

Monday June 10th -Field Trip to the Leighton Art Center

Wednesday June 19th is Fun Lunch

Thursday June 20th is Sports Day

Friday June 21st- Last Club Friday of the Year

Wednesday June 26th is Last day of School. Report Cards go home