Egg Drop

Room 4 students were flexible with their schedule, as we flipped Tuesday and Wednesday's specials time from afternoon to morning. This resulted in an extra recess at the end of the day, which I am sure the students didn't mind! On Monday students planted our flowers in the Crocker Farm Community garden with the help of Farmer Leila and a volunteer, Maryann. Students also did a great drop with the egg drop, spending Wednesday designing and sketching their package or egg drop "device" and then on Thursday students got to see how well their design work and if their egg would survive the drop. Be sure to ask your child about it and how their design worked. Which designs were the most successful? Why do they think they worked the best? Mr. Shea also popped in to share about his family and what is important in life. The kids loved seeing the photo of him at 3 months old and 5 generations of family. Next week Tara Luce will start mindfulness with our class two times per week. I am looking forward to this!

Reading

Students continue to work on contractions and long and short vowel rules (AND exceptions to the rule or trickers). We have been reading decoable texts and working on main idea and retelling. I have been pulling students to do their end of the year BAS assessment to check on their current reading level and students are really doing a wonderful job! The amount of growth is amazing! Thanks for your support at home with the reading. Keep it up!

Writing

We have started with our Embryology research papers and the collection of ideas and research for the paper. Students can wrtie about the egg, the chick or the chicken and it is an open-ended project where students are given the freedom to come up with their own question that they are interested in answering. Some students are working in a small group, a few in partners and most are working independently. 

Math

Students explored coins this week and reviewed dimes and pennies and then learned about nickels and quarters. Students practiced adding coins and identifying coins. Students did independent practice and games. I encourage you to have your child help count out change at the store or at home. We will continue to practice this into next week.

Reminders

• We are out of snack and would love some donations to help us make it through the end of the year.Please continue to send your child with a snack. This is supposed to be a back-up plans should a child forget his/her snack.
• If you haven't turned in your Look Park permission slip and $6, please do so asap. We need a permission slip from each child so that we can attend.