Our new visitors are TADPOLES! Every year around April when the weather starts to warm, frog/toads lay their eggs on top of my pool cover at home. Before we open our pool I always collect tadpoles to watch this cool life cycle in person. We have been debating whether the tadpoles are frogs or toads and even, can we tell the difference this early. So we did some investigating and we used a venn diagram to help us collect our information that we found. I am hoping that we will be able to see the changes happening before school gets out!
Reading Workshop
We are still practicing visualizing. We are mainly continuing to practice during IDR. Believe it or not, but it is a lot harder to visualize while reading and especially while they are reading a book that includes pictures. Your children are amazing and always strive to try and do their best, you should see the images they are seeing in their heads by the pictures that they have drawn. I am so impressed with their had work and determination to attempt anything that is thrown at them!
Writing Workshop
We have been using all our skills that we have been working on this year with free choice during writing. This gives the students practice on the things they loved the most.
Math workshop
We are reviewing our concepts from this year. We have reviewed graphing our height and comparing our measurements from December. We have found that maybe the measurements were not exact or true at times. We found that when we are collecting data that we need to make sure we are measuring correctly! We have also reviewed telling time to the half hours and quarter hours. You will notice that two sheet of homework went home along with the parent letter for the Unit 10.
Reminders!
Reading Workshop
We are still practicing visualizing. We are mainly continuing to practice during IDR. Believe it or not, but it is a lot harder to visualize while reading and especially while they are reading a book that includes pictures. Your children are amazing and always strive to try and do their best, you should see the images they are seeing in their heads by the pictures that they have drawn. I am so impressed with their had work and determination to attempt anything that is thrown at them!
Writing Workshop
We have been using all our skills that we have been working on this year with free choice during writing. This gives the students practice on the things they loved the most.
Math workshop
We are reviewing our concepts from this year. We have reviewed graphing our height and comparing our measurements from December. We have found that maybe the measurements were not exact or true at times. We found that when we are collecting data that we need to make sure we are measuring correctly! We have also reviewed telling time to the half hours and quarter hours. You will notice that two sheet of homework went home along with the parent letter for the Unit 10.
Reminders!
- We need more volunteers for field day!!! Let me know if you want to sign up, but need a sheet of paper!
- No school May 29- Memorial day
- Make sure to pay library fines and return books, we have one more check out Tuesday May 23
- Please email me about my special project for the students...see email for more
- please return permission slips for the First grade picnic as soon as possible!