Friday May 10th

Important Information/Reminders:

-Library is Tuesdays and Thursdays

-Both Sunrise and Glacier blue folders have slowly been sent home this week (a few each day) and a few more will be sent home Monday.  It has a sample of their most recent writing and a 2 Stars and a Wish self-reflection for you to review with your child.

-No School May 17th or May 20th

-Last day of school for kids June 27th.

-Coulee School week of June 3rd to June 7th.  We are looking for parent volunteers.  If you can join us for any of those dates, please let Mrs. Pelton or myself know.

Our Week:

Inquiry: We continue to watch as our caterpillars have now changed to their chrysalis form, stage 3 of their life cycle.  Kids are excited to do observations in their Nature Journals.  Ask you child about the questions/wonderings they have, what they have learned about Painted Lady Butterfly life cycles and any facts they have learned.

Math: Ask your child what they are doing in their Math group.  Both Grade 1's and 2's are working on learning about measurement-using both standard and non-standard units of measure.

Literacy: We did another writing sample that has gone home in blue folders.  Sunrise group is working on story retelling using the book, It Fell From The Sky.  Glacier group is working on parts of speech (nouns and verbs).  Glacier group was quite excited to learn about a book called The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsberg.  We looked at the pictures, titles for each picture and read the captions. We then did a piece of writing about one of the pictures: What do you see happening?  What do you think will happen next? etc.  The book is a real mystery!  Ask your child more.

Have a fabulous weekend!