Happy May Day!

Happy May! It’s so hard to believe that May is here… where has the year gone?! We had a great week last week. Thank you to all of the parents who were able to chaperone us to the Kansas City Zoo! It as a beautifully perfect day and the kids had a blast seeing everything! Trips like this are not possible with out parents like you.


Guided reading groups ended last week. During the next two weeks, I will be using our Daily 5/Language block to do some year-end reading testing. Students will also be doing some reading comprehension and word work activities in class during that time. When testing is finished, we will begin our "Teach the Class" week. I will be sending an information letter home today. Now would be a good time to start talking with your child about possible ideas for teaching the class. If you have any questions please let me know. These forms are due to be returned May 10th. Be creative!


Our current math unit includes a lot of different information, as you have probably noticed! So far in unit 13, students have worked on multiplication, division, fractions, and geometry. Next week, we will spend a couple of days on probability and statistics, and then do some more work with geometry. The unit 13 assessment will be this week.

I will be grading our amphibian/reptile test this week. This was such a fun unit for the kids to learn… and me to teach! This week will be our Junior Achievement week, and we will be welcoming a guest teacher from our community into our classroom to talk about production, producers and consumers. For the rest of the month of May, we will be using our science/social studies block to study about animal adaptations, and United States symbols.

Please check with your child one last time about school supplies. I know that many students are working with dry markers and almost-empty glue sticks. Those things will definitely come in handy with some of our end-of-the-year projects.


Thanks, as always, for all that you do!