MAP Testing is ongoing for the next two weeks. Students have been working very hard so far, and I am proud of their efforts! Thank you so much to all of the parents who donated snack mix items for testing. The students are loving it!
Bowling Field Trip forms were sent home last week. If you have not done so, please send signed permission slips and payment in as soon as possible. Thank you!
Our school-wide Literacy Festival will be on May 6th. Students will have an assembly with an author and illustrator. They will also get to choose a free book to read over the summer!
An ice cream truck and bubble bus will be visiting Long on May 12. Students should bring $1.00 if they would like to purchase an item from the ice cream truck.
Friday, May 13 school will be closed for a teacher professional development day.
Field Day is coming up on May 20th. We are in need of many parent volunteers to help with activities that day. Please use the following link to sign up if you are interested in volunteering: http://www.signupgenius.com/
Class Updates:
In math, we have been learning all about customary and metric measurement. Students have been studying benchmark measurements and practicing to convert back and forth between the different units. We have also continued our study of geometry. Take a look at some of our "Geome-tree" Posters that show how quadrilaterals can be classified. We will have a test over geometry once MAP testing has finished.
In reading and writing, we are beginning a new unit on poetry. Students will spend time reading and analyzing a variety of poems. They will be looking for examples of figurative language and determining themes. The children will also practice writing several types of poems, including haiku, free verse, simile and metaphor poems, acrostics, and more. Each child will create an anthology of their work. Today we tried out using alliteration.
In social studies we will be learning about the original 13 colonies. Students will be completing a project were they "create" a colonist. They will need to make their colonist have a job, living conditions, and a name consistent with the time period of the early colonists. After conducting research, they will then write a journal entry from the colonist's point of view about how life was during that time.
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