May 9-13
Thank you all so much for everything that you did for us for Teacher Appreciation week. Ms. Knight, Ms. Solis , and I truly feel loved and appreciated by all of you. Thank you!
Thanks to our creative and talented team of PTA hospitality for decorating the school for us and providing breakfast on Friday. We truly have the best PTA in the world!
A special thank you to Ms. Melissa Ross for providing yet another lunch and homemade dinner for us! You all gave so generously for Festive Friday, and Ms. Ross was able to provide more meals for us this week. Thank you for your generosity as always. It felt so good to come home on Friday and have dinner ready!
And last but not the least, thank you to our kind and very generous anonymous donor for buying a new Lakeshore rug for our classroom! The rug was much needed for our classroom and my students have been able to enjoy their comfortable spots on the rug. It is the generosity and kind hearts of parents and people in our community that makes our community so special! Thank you for thinking of children and giving to children.
REMINDERS
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: STAAR tests for 3,4, and 5th graders.
Thank you all so much for everything that you did for us for Teacher Appreciation week. Ms. Knight, Ms. Solis , and I truly feel loved and appreciated by all of you. Thank you!
Thanks to our creative and talented team of PTA hospitality for decorating the school for us and providing breakfast on Friday. We truly have the best PTA in the world!
A special thank you to Ms. Melissa Ross for providing yet another lunch and homemade dinner for us! You all gave so generously for Festive Friday, and Ms. Ross was able to provide more meals for us this week. Thank you for your generosity as always. It felt so good to come home on Friday and have dinner ready!
And last but not the least, thank you to our kind and very generous anonymous donor for buying a new Lakeshore rug for our classroom! The rug was much needed for our classroom and my students have been able to enjoy their comfortable spots on the rug. It is the generosity and kind hearts of parents and people in our community that makes our community so special! Thank you for thinking of children and giving to children.
REMINDERS
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: STAAR tests for 3,4, and 5th graders.
Tuesday:Tuesday folders come home. Please sign the folder and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday: Math homework is due.
I will be doing the End of the Year Reading Assessment starting this week until May 20th. This is a time that I will be reading with each child individually to assess their reading level and readiness for next year. For this reason, I will not be sending any more reading folders home. Please continue to visit the library (public or school library) and encourage your child to use RAZ-kids to read at home. Your child knows that they need to complete the quiz for each book before moving on to the next book or next level. The RAZ-kids username and passwords were sent home in November. Please let me know if you are missing your child's username or password.
SPRING PBL PROJECT
This week we will wrap up our PBL project. Our students have learned so much about the benefits of a homegrown garden. They have learned that food could come for free if every person in the community take a small part in growing a small manageable garden. They have learned about different parts of the plants and how we eat different parts such as roots, stems, leaves, or fruits. This week we will learn about plants life cycle and work on designing our gardens on the paper as well as in our small mini gardens. We will plant our seeds in small egg cartons or the soda containers and will send them home. The children should be able to find the best sunny spots for their mini garden and care for them from then on. They should also be able to tell you what they need to do after little sprouts grow which is transferring them into bigger containers. They are all very excited about their mini gardens!
Wednesday: Math homework is due.
I will be doing the End of the Year Reading Assessment starting this week until May 20th. This is a time that I will be reading with each child individually to assess their reading level and readiness for next year. For this reason, I will not be sending any more reading folders home. Please continue to visit the library (public or school library) and encourage your child to use RAZ-kids to read at home. Your child knows that they need to complete the quiz for each book before moving on to the next book or next level. The RAZ-kids username and passwords were sent home in November. Please let me know if you are missing your child's username or password.
SPRING PBL PROJECT
This week we will wrap up our PBL project. Our students have learned so much about the benefits of a homegrown garden. They have learned that food could come for free if every person in the community take a small part in growing a small manageable garden. They have learned about different parts of the plants and how we eat different parts such as roots, stems, leaves, or fruits. This week we will learn about plants life cycle and work on designing our gardens on the paper as well as in our small mini gardens. We will plant our seeds in small egg cartons or the soda containers and will send them home. The children should be able to find the best sunny spots for their mini garden and care for them from then on. They should also be able to tell you what they need to do after little sprouts grow which is transferring them into bigger containers. They are all very excited about their mini gardens!
READING and WRITING
We will continue reading fiction and non-fiction stories and review different comprehension strategies that we have been working on this year. In writing, we will work on our PBL folders which is a collection of our research and findings about plants and vegetable gardens.
We will continue reading fiction and non-fiction stories and review different comprehension strategies that we have been working on this year. In writing, we will work on our PBL folders which is a collection of our research and findings about plants and vegetable gardens.
MATH
SCIENCES
As part of our PBL project we will learn about the plant life cycle.
This week we will work on solving word problems with objects and pictorial models that involve joining, separating, and comparing sets and represent those problems with number sentences. We will solve problems when the unknown as any term in the problem (the sum, the difference, or the unknown part in part-part-whole).
SCIENCES
As part of our PBL project we will learn about the plant life cycle.
THANK YOU!
Thank you for stuffing the folders, and being willing to help in the classroom or outside the classroom. Your helping hands and hearts are greatly appreciated!
More than anything, thank you for supporting your child's learning at home. Your child's success and education is a result of, us working together! So thank you for being a partner in your child's learning.
