May 7th Newsletter

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This week in literacy we will be having fun with non-fiction writing!  Last week the students brainstormed topics they knew a lot about and narrowed their topics down to one.  This week, the students will begin writing a non-fiction book about that topic.  They will continue to learn about text features and making their writing sound like non-fiction.  We will be reading a lot of non-fiction read-alouds this week, and we will use those as our mentor texts to help us with our writing.  Additionally, we will work on expanding our sentences so that our writing is very clear to our readers.

In math, we will continue learning about fractions and partitioning shapes/objects equally into halves and quarters.  We will hopefully be able to get outside for one of our lessons so we can draw some of our own fractions using chalk!  Look for some creations on Seesaw.  Additionally, we will be creating our own story problems and solving them in multiple ways.  

This week we will continue to learn about plants and their life cycles.  We will be going outside to take a picture of a flower and we will use Seesaw to label the parts.


If your child has a summer birthday, they will be bringing home a note with information and a date that we will be celebrating their birthday.

Special Points of Interest

• Our final Scholastic Book Order of the year is due Friday, May 18th. Shop Online: scholastic.com/readingclub Class Activation Code: JBVLX
• May 8: Awesome Art Day!
• May 9: Baby Picture Day!
• May 10: Crazy Socks Day!
• May 11: If You Give a Dog a Donut Day! 
• May 14 and 15: MAP Testing (Math)
• May 21: Dining for Dollars- Wayne's Drive In