Parent volunteers are needed for Long's annual field day, which is scheduled for Friday, May 19th. Please use the this link to sign up if you are interested. Volunteers will be leading our class around from station to station. Thank you for volunteering!
Permission slips have been sent home for our upcoming Science Center Field Trip. Please sign and return the form with the fee, and send it back with your child. Please take note there is a place on the bottom of the permission slip to check that your child will either need to pack a lunch that day or order a sack lunch from the cafeteria. (LEAP students will be enjoying Space Camp that week, so they will not need to worry about the field trip slip.)
Save the Date! DARE Graduation will be May 18th at 1:30.
Class Updates:
Thanks to LPTO for funding some new seating options for the students, as well as laptop and standing desks. The children love them! Our classroom setup has also changed to be wired and ready for MAP Testing. The students did a fantastic job with their first day, and I am proud of their effort!
We are taking advantage of having all of these laptops by trying out the Prodigy website to practice our math skills. Students can play Prodigy at home as well to review what we have learned throughout year. Check it out!
Students are participating in MAP Testing beginning this week and lasting through the first week in May. It is important that students are getting a full night's sleep and eating a healthy breakfast each day. Students will not have homework other than to complete their reading log minutes on evenings before testing.
In math, we are learning about measurement. Students are learning how to convert between units of measurement in both the customary and metric systems of measurement. The children should be studying their "benchmark" measurements on the yellow study guide in their folders. We have also been reviewing all skills learned from this year. A measurement quiz will not be given until after MAP testing is over. Take a look at some of the "Geome-tree Posters" students designed to help them learn how to classify quadrilaterals.
As we finish state testing, we will start up some new projects and units. In writing, students will be composing a DARE essay as the final step to graduate from the DARE Program. The DARE essay focuses on using the DARE Decision Making Model, which is a large focus of the program. More details to come on this assignment once testing is over in English Language Arts. We will continue to work on reading and analyzing poetry. In addition, students will have a social studies project about the colonists.
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