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Friday, May 17, 2013

Crew News May 17, 2013

New Books
We were able to get some new books with the bonus points from our recent book order. We were all super excited about two of them. They are shown in the photos below.




Homework
No homework for the weekend. Enjoy some great books with your child.

IA
Our IA next week is Music.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Crew News May 16, 2013

Falling for Rapunzel
We attended a fabulous performance of Falling for Rapunzel in the library today. The performers were all very funny. Thank you to Ms. Kristen, Ms. Diana and Ms. Jillian.





Writing
We have started our last unit of study in writing. We are taking a look at all of the various adaptations of the fairy tale, The Three Little Pigs. There are so many different versions of this story. After we study these versions for a while we will begin to write our own. It should be lots of fun.

A sample of some of the different versions of The Three Little Pigs.

Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 9.8 Solving Fraction Problems

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Crew News May 15, 2013

Digging Our Dirt
We have begun the last part of our Science Expedition. This case study is about Earth's natural resources. We have chosen soil as the natural resource that we want to study in depth. We began by gathering samples of soil (thank you to all who sent in a sample) from our homes and around our school. Next we just looked at the wide variety of dirt and all of the colors dirt could be. After that we analyzed the texture of the dirt - some is very crunchy and hard and some is soft and smooth. Yesterday we did an experiment with water and dirt. We poured water through a few samples of our dirt to see what would happen. Ask your child all about it. Now we will begin to learn some of the things dirt does for us in our world. Stay tuned for further updates.  


Dirt can be many different colors.





Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Practice basic addition and subtraction facts

Library
We have library tomorrow. Please help your child remember his or her books. All books are due tomorrow. We will not be checking out new books for the remainder of the year. It's time to visit the public library!

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Happy Birthday Asher!


Crew News May 14, 2013

Book Donations
A few members of our crew have donated books to our classroom library. Some of these books came from cleaning out bookshelves at home and some are new books. If you are doing some cleaning and have books that need a new home, please consider donating them to our classroom library. We would love to have them.






Ant Farm
Owen brought in his ant farm (made by Uncle Milton) to share with us today. We all enjoyed watching the ants move around through their tunnels. I heard many of the crew asking you at pick up if they could have an ant farm at home so I included a picture below so you could see what they are talking about.




Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 9.7 Comparing Fractions

All school library books are due on Thursday.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Crew News May 13, 2013

Ashlyn is Getting Better
Ashlyn came to school this afternoon for a few hours after her doctor's appointment. She will be recovering for about a month from her concussion. She brought in some things from all of her hospital visits to show us. It was so interesting. We loved seeing her and hearing her story. She will need to be extra careful to avoid any further head injuries until she heals. So we will all be very careful around her, too.

Ashlyn showed us her collection of hospital bracelets. (She has 3).

She also showed us pictures of her brain and head along with a strip of paper that showed her heart beat.

Sight Words/Word Work

Our new sight words are: about, there, where, who, what
 
Previous words include: and, going, of, for, like, little, look, saw, she, said, the, thing, they, was, with, come, get, from, have, are, some, went, want, out, her, very, favorite, made, here, night, friend, when, because, talk, could, new, nice, kick, rain, house, how, down, people, won't why

We are working on learning to spell these words correctly. We can read them, now we must learn to write them. These are great words to point out to your child when they are reading or to have them practice spelling at home, too. 

Ask your child to explain how we practice these words at school using the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check method.  

Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 9.6 Fractional Parts

All library books are due for this year by Thursday.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Crew News May 10, 2013

Archery
The crew practiced their archery skills in P.E. this week. A few photos are in the Haiku Deck below. If you get this post by email you will need to go directly to the blog to view the deck.



Homework
No homework for the weekend. Enjoy some great books with your child.

IA
Our IA next week is Art.