WEEK 36     May 9-13, 2016

We had a wonderful week carving our keelboats, cutting apples to dehydrate, and creating our cereal box book reports! It's amazing that we accomplished all this and completed Dibels testing too!
Next week will be the end of the year Singapore Assessments.  Please make sure your students are getting their rest so they can do their best.

Next Friday is our Famous Frontier Day at Archway!  The news is already spreading abroad and there are many excited students ready to participate.  Check the sign-up in case there are any items missing that we need. We are still in need of "dress up" clothes for our photo booth...especially boy shirts.

THANK YOU!!!!!! Parents for the wonderful gifts I received this week.  I am so honored to be your child's teacher, with or without gifts!  Hopefully we have created first grade memories to last a lifetime!

It is time to return all the readers and chapter books.  I hope your child will continue to read all summer long to keep their skills sharp for second grade.

ELA

Spelling
Monday: teacher, November, subject, April, history, study, himself, matter, use, thought.
Tuesday: person, nor, or, January, mean, vote, court, copy, been, be
Wednesday: act, yesterday, among, question, quest, doctor, size, December, dozen, there
Thursday:  Write words once with markings to prepare for the test on Friday.

Literature:

This week we will be reading about the Adventures of Pinocchio, and creating our own puppet theater.

History

Students will continue to learn about westward expansion and the benefit to the United States.  We will be able to discuss the importance of having Sacagawea on the journey with Lewis and Clark, and what her contributions were.

Science

Students enjoyed their Ocean unit so much, we decided to visit this unit again.  This week we will study the zones and the various animals that live in each one.

Math

In our final weeks of math we will continue to review past concepts and have our weekly class store.

Virtue of the month - WISDOM

Never, no never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.  Edmund Burke

Have a great week and email me with any concerns you may have!