April 28-May 2 and May 5-9

Important Reminders

• The second blizzard bag is due on Monday, April 28.  
• The white t-shirts for our Tie dye project are due by Wednesday, April 30. 

Music Concert

Our music concert is on Friday, May 2 at 2:30.  Students should dress in clothing that fits the farm theme.  Suggestions include:  Shirts with pictures fitting the theme such as tractors, farm animals, scarecrows, sunflowers etc.  Plain shirts are fine also.  Please avoid tops with other types of pictures or athletic numbers.  Pants, skirts, shorts, overalls, or dresses may be worn.  Please make sure your child's outfit has a pocket.  The students will be bringing a small prop on stage and keeping it in their pockets during the performance.  Please make sure they wear safe, comfortable shoes.  Please keep it simple.  No one should feel obligated to buy new clothing for this concert.

Language Arts, Science and Social Studies

For the next two weeks, we will be learning about seeds  We will be learning about what seeds need to grow and the difference between living and non-living things. We will be reading various stories including Seeds, The Mystery of Seeds and Alive or Not Alive.  We will continue to work on comprehension skills such as comparing and contrasting.

During writing workshop, we will continue our unit on narrative writing.  We learned that narrative writing means that we are telling a story.  Narrative writing includes characters, setting, and a beginning, middle and end.  We will be practicing writing in this genre for several weeks.

Word study--Blends

• Week of April 28--dr, gr, tr
• Week of May 5--sw, wh, qu, tw

We are also working on spelling our sight words correctly.  

Math
We have been focusing on fluency with the addition and subtraction facts to 5. You may have seen some timed tests come home. We are practicing completing 10 math facts in one minute.  We will begin a unit on shapes.