June 1-June 5

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:

Our field trip is tomorrow!  We will be going rain or shine so please help your child dress appropriately for the weather.  Umbrellas are allowed, as well, if you would like to send one along with your child.  All students need to bring a packed lunch and water bottle with them.

Please send along $2.00 (only!) with your child so they may purchase a drink or ice cream from the snack shack.  We will NOT be visiting the gift shop so please do not send along any extra money.

Students may choose to bring a quarter to buy food to feed the fish, bear, or deer while we are at the park. 

If there should be a downpour tomorrow while we are at the park, we will come back to school early.  

Today, your child will bring home a large gift bag with their name on it.  It is my end of the year gift to them.  In it, you’ll find a team jersey for your child.  They are asked to wear it on the field trip tomorrow.  You’ll also find information for summer practice.

If you would like your child to participate in the school wide book swap on Friday, please send them to school with a gently used book they would like to trade for a different book.  It should be a book you think another child would be interested in reading.  All books should be donated by TOMORROW!  The book swap will take place on Friday.

This week in...

ELA:  This week will be dedicated to our final personal narratives for the year.  This will be the writing piece that will be used as the final assessment of our writing goals.  It will also be sent to your child’s future third grade teacher.  Today, we shared our memories out loud with partners so we could remember as many details as possible.  Then, we brainstormed when our memories happened, who we were with, where it happened, what happened, and how our memories made us feel.  Later this week, we will use all of this information to write a personal narrative.

Our narratives should have:

-a good topic sentence

-lots of details about our thoughts, feelings, and actions

-information that goes in order and makes sense

-some use of transition words like first, next, then, and last

-a good closing sentence

-capital letters where they belong

-correct ending punctuation

-most of the words spelled correctly

-neat handwriting with finger spaces between the words

After writing our rough drafts, each student will proofread their own work.  Then, they will have two other students proofread their writing before they turn it in.

Spelling:   Our final spelling test of the year will happen on Friday!  Students will be assessed on list #4.  

Math:  We will focus on measurement.  Here are our learning goals:

-be able to select an appropriate tool for measuring

-estimate how long an object is

-measure in inches and centimeters

-create a line plot of the measurements and talk about the data (i.e.  How many objects were six inches long, how long were most of the objects, how long were the fewest amount of objects, etc.)

Science:  We will be celebrating all of our hard work on our animal projects by visiting the wildlife park!  The GNG Middle School students will be giving several presentations on the animals we will visit to give us more information.  

Read Aloud:  From now until the end of the school year, we are going to read some great picture books... just for fun!  It’s important to know that reading is fun and should always be enjoyed.  We don’t always have to read to learn something.  Sometimes, it’s nice to just read a book that makes us smile or laugh.  I’ll be reading some of my favorites to Team Howard over the next few weeks.