What's Happening in Room 30.....

Important Announcements:

• Shhh..... it's a surprise!  An envelope addressed to "The Parents of..." will be coming home today.  Inside you will find information about our upcoming MAP test and also a request asking you to write letters of encouragement to your child during MAP testing. Please return your notes by April 21st in the envelope provided.  Your child will LOVE receiving personal notes from you every day of testing.  PLEASE help keep it a surprise:)

• Also coming home today is a letter requesting snacks for our MAP Snack Mix.  The students LOVE having a special treat after working hard on the MAP each day.

• Please help your child remember to bring in an old bath or beach towel to use during outdoor learning.

• MAP testing is right around the corner and our  MAP testing schedule is listed below.  Please make every effort to avoid scheduling Dr. appointments during our testing windows. 

                                 April 27th - afternoon

                                 April 28th - morning

                                 April 29th - morning

                                 May 2nd - afternoon

                                 May 3rd - morning

Dates to Remember:  

Tuesday:  Service Team at 3:30
Thursday:  Choir 8:00 a.m.
Friday:      MAP Assembly at 2:00
Monday (4/18):  Mid-Quarter Reports will be coming home
                                                            

What's Happening in Our Room.... 

Reading Workshop: 

• The students will practice listening to audio text and answer questions related to the text.
• I have encouraged the students to increase their independent reading time to 30 minutes at home.  Some of the students included this as a reading goal!

Writer's Workshop:

• The students have chosen "food" as our topic for the class poetry anthology.  They have  created fun poems around the topic.  This week, the students will create a "repeated line" and a simile poem.  They will focus on including different types of figurative language in their poetry.  I will post a few poems later this week on our blog.

Math:

• The students will be tested over customary measurement on Tuesday.  We will begin our geometry unit on Wednesday.

Science

• The students are enjoying the Nature Unleashed Unit.  We spent time outside last week between cooler temperatures.  We will hopefully get more time outside this week as we continue to study the ecosystems.  We will end out unit with a field trip to GEMPP Missouri Conservation Area on May 17th.