**Can't wait to see all the projects for our Academic Fair and all the vehicles for the Egg Drop. Wednesday, April 27th is the day!!! Come join us out on the blacktop for the Egg Drop beginning at 12:15 pm. Join us once again to see our students present and talk about their Academic Fair projects from 6:30-8:00 that evening.
**Family Math Night is Thursday, April 28th from 6:30-8:00 pm. This years theme is "Who done it?" Let's collect, decipher and solve the math mystery!
**RUN WITH ME on Saturday, May 7th at 8:00 am in Lindberg Park at District 97's Annual Fun Run. See me for information sheet.
**The 31st Annual Ethnic Festival Saturday, May 7th from 10-3 pm at Julian Middle School.
**GOOD NEWS! Our class has earned 90 eagle wings and qualifies for another celebration. Last time, you remember, the students chose a game afternoon where they brought the games. This time, they have decided on a Costume/Dance Party (costumes are optional) on Tuesday, April 26th from 2-2:55pm. Students can bring their costumes in a bag to change into. Students may also bring appropriate cd's to play. We will have carrots, apples, popcorn and grapes (their choices) for snack.
**This weeks Ultimate Vocabulary Challenge word was EXEMPLARY--to use as a model.
(That student's work was exemplary!) The word was submitted by our own classmate, Hannah.
Congratulations, Hannah! We used the word 6 times (short week).
**In this short week, we talked about Earth Day. We discussed how we, as individuals, could help save the earth. We brainstormed a list of ideas of things we already do to to help out. We planted grass seed in the form of a G for GREEN and GULLO's class. We will watch it grow.
**We will begin prep for our 3rd and final science unit, From Seed to Plant. The students will be choosing a flower to grow from seed. We will also be starting a class garden and choosing a plant for our outside planting bed. It will be very exciting!
**No homework this weekend. Keep reading!! Enjoy the time with family.
This week: It was all about the SPACE STATIONS. The students formed groups and a group leader was chosen. We discussed the art of working with a group, the importance of communication, participation and compromise. The groups sketched various prototype drawings. On Monday, they selected their boxes and began the process of construction. Boxes were cut, taped and prepared for painting. Currently, the groups are working on painting their space stations. We should be finished with painting and on to detailing by early next week. I am pleased with each groups interactions and their commitment to the task. Stay tuned!
Reading: We continue to work on Unit 6. We are nearing its completion. In the story,"Hat's Off to the Fourth of July," the students listened to the story of a parade taking place on the 4th of July. They sequenced the order of events taking place in the parade, as well as looked for and orally labeled nouns, verbs and adjectives. We reviewed the use of comas. The students continue to work on building fluency, blending 4-5 phoneme words, adding and deleting word parts and reviewing blends and digraphs. No WORD PLAY this week.
Math: We continue to work on both addition and subtraction processes. Next week, the students will decide if the story problem for their math journal involves addition or subtraction . We will mix it up!
Writing: We continue to work on reflecting in our journal, refining upper and lowercase letters, spacing between words in a sentence and position of words on a given line.
Science: We read about and discussed the dwarf planet, Pluto and beyond. We took a look a maps and drawings of our current solar system. We also studied about the dwarf planets, Eres and Ceres. The students got to sample some freeze dried ice cream sandwiches and strawberries. Some real space food! Most thought it tasted crunchy and dry but good! Our main work centered around working on our space stations.
Literature: "First Graders from Mars" Episodes 1 and 2, "Beyond Pluto," "The Story of Passover," "This is the Matzoh," "Bad, Bad, Bunny Trouble," "The Statue of Liberty," "It's Spring," "Mars Needs Moms," "It's Easter."
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