May 11, 2014

We had a very exciting week! First of all, thank you for the beautiful flowers! I absolutely loved reading all of the lovely cards from the class. What a great way to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week! We also started a class play with Suzie Dunn (Ellie's mom) of The Cue Theatre! Mrs. Dunn goes to local schools and works with classes to perform plays. We are very lucky to have this opportunity. Thanks to all who volunteered to help out with this. The class will be performing it in June. Finally, we celebrated Amato's creative writing award. Amato wrote the story as part of our personal narrative unit and it was chosen from several local entries to be entered in the state-wide contest and he won first place!!! We are so proud of him. He read his winning story, "The Best Game Ever", to the class and was presented with his award by members of the Delmar Progress Club, who locally sponsor this contest. Check out some pictures of these events below and look for Amato's picture on the school website! Happy Mother's Day to all the great moms!!

 This week...

Reading
Students are continuing the Andrew Clements book clubs. We finished The Land of Stories and started a new read aloud. We are now reading the first book in the series "Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School". We have one group of students left to read the weekly poem aloud. All students should continue to read the poem aloud each night to practice fluency and expression. This week's poem is called "Dandelions".

Writing
Students spent last week gathering evidence and will start drafting their persuasive speeches this week.

Math
We will continue working on geometry, word problems and reviewing previously learned concepts. For homework, I will send home word problem practice on Monday and Wednesday and the other nights will just be to go on Xtra math.

Science/Social Studies
We are continuing the solar system and Brazil units.