Week of May 6-10

Hello families,

We have been working in our classroom on discovering two more ways to start plants...
We took vines from an ivy plant and put them into water to watch and see how a new ivy plant will begin. We planted flower bulbs and will observe how the bulbs sprouts. Our brassica plants grew flowers. We used q-tips to act like bees and pollinate the flowers. The next stage of the plant will be the seedpods that grow where the flower was. This will bring our plants through one full life cycle.
We have learned several science terms so far: pollinate, nutrients, roots, stems, petals, pistols, anthers, and bulbs. We still have a two more ways to plant coming up next week!

We have started a new unit of math on geometry. So far the students have been learning attributes of shapes. We have learned how to identify shapes through their attributes. We have learned these new terms: angles, right angle, sides, vertex, and parallel lines. We played shape capture and sorted shapes by their attributes. The unit 7 math test will go home tonight!

In reading, we have moved on to a new book for book clubs. In our series we have noticed how characters relate to each other, how characters act and we look for evidence to predict what a character will do or say. We read the book The Stories Julian Tells to study the character Julian, his brother and his dad to predict how Julian will solve a problem.
Continue to have your child read their book club book at home and return it to school every day.

I-ready testing will begin soon. We will be doing the spring I-ready reading and math assessments. These will be used to measure your child's growth for placement into Third Grade. Students will need to have his or her headphones. I will let you know when testing will occur a day or so in advance.

In social studies, we have begun to study schools from 1880's and compared them to schools today. We discussed many differences. The students are so excited to visit the one room school house On May 22nd!

Our spelling pattern for May 6-10 is r-controlled vowel patterns or, ore, oar. We will use the online component to sort, write and practice finding those patterns inside of text.

A few dates coming up:
May 22 - field trip
May 24 - field day and half day for students
June 7 - Cirque among us

If you wish to volunteer on June 7th for Cirque among us, please let me know. This event requires a lot of extra help!

Have a great weekend,
Mrs. Scheck