Lice are still being found on heads; Check your child’s head frequently, & if still needed, do the lice treatment and buy a $2. narrow-tooth comb at Petco to remove nits!
Congratulations to our classroom spelling bee winners, who will represent us in the 2nd grade Spelling Bee on May 14: Eleanor, Nina, Sydney, and Kai!
The students really enjoyed learning about pioneers last week, and did fine writing about it!! Naper Settlement, with its excellent docents, gave us an authentic experience of life in the 1800s. On Friday, those bringing a “pioneer lunch” had a terrific conversation about the different items in the lunches, ie, what parts a pioneer would have grown or made or bought. They really did some great thinking!
We will read another story about an African-American pioneer family this week, “A Place called Freedom”. The vocabulary words are: plantation, fretted, settlement, sturdy, weary. Our spelling words are all compound words: maybe, inside, bedroom, lunchroom, myself, nobody, sunrise, himself, railroad, everyone.
We are reviewing math Unit 7, and will have our test on Wednesday. Skills include: using complements of 10 to do mental addition; number-grid puzzles; counting by 2s, 5s, 10s and describing the pattern; measuring length (cm/in); plotting data on a bar graph; finding the median. Then we’ll start Unit 8 on Fractions (parent letter is attached.)
The students have done a fabulous job researching “their” dinosaur, and writing 3 paragraphs describing it. Today we wrote a generic group introductory paragraph. Now that the editing is complete, we’re hard-at-work typing on the computers, trying to finish by the end of the week. We’ll produce a class big-book (ie, Dinosaur Encyclopedia!), and I hope to mount their work on the internet as well.
In ArtStart this week we make Lego houses, next week is each student constructing a house or building out of boxes. Please let me know if your schedule enables you to help us out both Wednesdays (5/5 & 5/12) from 12:30 – 1:45.
Homework: It’s Fitness Week!
Daily: read for 20 minutes; study basic math facts for Mental Math quizzes; cursive.
Due Wed: Math test, Spelling workbook, pages 130-33 (& wear sweats for ACES).
Thursday: 6:30 – 7:30 PM, Come to Family Math Night at Longfellow;
Friday: spelling test; PJ day
Saturday: Fun Run at Lindberg Park
Due next week: at least 10 boxes here by Wed, 5/12, to make your Art Start building; Book Report due date has been pushed back to Thurs, 5/20,
All parents: let your voice be heard, and fill our Longfellow’s SIT parent survey sometime this week: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MXJWFF5
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