Language and Science

Our story of the week was A Frog’s Life. We identified the four stages of the frog life cycle beginning with the egg, followed by the tadpole and then it’s growth into an adult frog. We discussed where frogs lived and found out what they ate. We even have 6 tadpoles living in our classroom! They are contained in a small tank, which simulates a pond. We named them Wolf, Joshua, Maggie, Tillie, Nemo, and Sunlight. Students wrote about the life cycle of a frog. The tadpoles should become frogs before our school year ends. We’ll release them in the park or the woods near the school.

More Language…

• We wrote and used possessive pronouns in our writing - your, my, his, her, etc…
• We also worked with words that have the vowel pairs of oo - spoon and look,
• ew - grew and new, ue - blue and glue, and ou - group .

Homework and Spelling Test Tomorrow

Spelling words for tomorrow are;

• every, right, afraid, turn, and head.

Math homework will be sent home along with with newsletter. Please review these assignments with your child and send them back tomorrow

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 Math

Our study of fractions continue with exploring the idea that fractional parts of the whole must be equal. Students were introduced to fraction notation. They also wrote the fractions to label fractional parts in geometric figures.

Yesterday, we went outside (it was a beautiful day) and we measure distances and circumference with our tape measures. We measure the distance around the biggest trees and the smallest trees on our playground, the distance between two trees, leaves, branches, and dandelions.

Field Trip Scheduled

Our field trip to the S.S. City of Milwaukee - a national historic landmark - will take place o n Thursday, May 27We will be gone for the majority of the school day. The trip will include an interactive tour of the historic vessel. We will follow with a picnic in the park, a nature walk and playtime. Hopefully the weather will be cooperative. An alternative date has been set for Friday, May 28 should we have uncooperative weather. . If you are interested in chaperoning, please contact me at school. I will send home an itinerary of the trip in next week’s newsletter.