I hope you all had a chance to spend some time outside over the weekend. What fantastic weather! I had to break out the sunscreen and my vegetable garden is up and running. Great weekend all around!!
Last week, we were lucky enough to have Mr. Lopresti come into our room to discuss fire safety with our class. The kids loved it! They all got a chance to try on all of Mr. Lopresti's fire fighter equipment and uniform. We also had a few volunteers to demonstrate some first aid techniques. I have a lot of pictures that I will be posting on the blog. Keep watch!! Thank you Mr. Lopresti!!!
This week is going to be very exciting!! We have Spirit Day on Tuesday. Please have your child wear red and white clothes and we will enjoy all of the festivities Ms. Brown and the parents will have set up for them. And, of course we will be having our big kickball game - 5th graders vs. teachers. If you would like, your child can bring a beach towel to sit on when they watch the game. GO TEACHERS!!!!! :) I'm just hoping I don't hurt myself......
A sneak peak at the week ahead -
ELA -
This week our phonics focus is the vowel dipthong ou and ow. Our story in our anthology is "Ebb and Flo and the Baby Seal". Our comprehension focus will once again be story elements and we will be monitoring our comprehension by making inferences. Our grammar focus will be using am, is and are. During writer's workshop we will be writing about "If I Were a Butterfly.....". Where would you go?
Math -
We will be reviewing subtraction, fractions and time to the half hour.
Science -
Our caterpillars are in their chrysalises. We are a little over a week away from having butterflies. We will be watching another video about the life cycle of a butterfly and making observations.
Have a wonderful week!
Mrs. M
Mrs. Cataldo
Fire Safety Fun!!
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Happy Mother's Day!!
I hope all of you had a wonderful Mother's Day! The weather was gorgeous and I didn't have to cook. Just wish there was someone else to do the food shopping and laundry.....
A sneak peak at the week ahead:
In ELA - This week our phonics focus will be long vowel i - concentrating mostly on igh. We will also discuss the contractions 'd, 've and 're. The story we will be reading in our anthology will be "Blast Off" and we will be discussing the story elements - characters, setting and beginning, middle and end. We will also continue our discussion on verbs in the present tense or as Storytown puts it...verbs that tell about now. A little confusing...
In Math, we will begin our week with a review of concepts taught throughout the year with our end of year assessment on Tuesday. Over the next couple of weeks we will be reviewing chapters we felt needed a second glance at such as fractions, time to the half hour and double digit addition. We will also focus some time on word problems.
In Science, we will continue discussing the life cycle of a butterfly. We were very excited (and surprised) to see that three of our mealworms had turned into Darkling Beetles this past week. I know some of you had a chance to see one of them at the open house. The students were very excited. We are anticipating our caterpillars to build their chrysalises this week and we will be waiting patiently for our butterflies!! This week we will be making our own model of the life cycle of a butterfly. Thank you to the Sousa and Constantino families for sending in some model magic clay for this, but we still need a little more. If you have any green or white model magic floating around, we could use some for our science projects. Thank you!!!!!
We are in the midst of year end assessments with our writing assessments done last week - boy did they all do a FABULOUS JOB! Mrs. Cataldo and I have been saying all year how we have a classroom of great writers. Math assessments will be done this week and we keep plugging away at DRA's. We are very proud of the progress each and every one of our students has made. They work very hard and it shows in their work. Kudos to you and your children!!!!
Don't forget:
Class pictures are tomorrow, May 14th.
Enjoy the last few hours of this wonderful Sunday!!!!
Mrs. M
Mrs. Cataldo
A sneak peak at the week ahead:
In ELA - This week our phonics focus will be long vowel i - concentrating mostly on igh. We will also discuss the contractions 'd, 've and 're. The story we will be reading in our anthology will be "Blast Off" and we will be discussing the story elements - characters, setting and beginning, middle and end. We will also continue our discussion on verbs in the present tense or as Storytown puts it...verbs that tell about now. A little confusing...
In Math, we will begin our week with a review of concepts taught throughout the year with our end of year assessment on Tuesday. Over the next couple of weeks we will be reviewing chapters we felt needed a second glance at such as fractions, time to the half hour and double digit addition. We will also focus some time on word problems.
In Science, we will continue discussing the life cycle of a butterfly. We were very excited (and surprised) to see that three of our mealworms had turned into Darkling Beetles this past week. I know some of you had a chance to see one of them at the open house. The students were very excited. We are anticipating our caterpillars to build their chrysalises this week and we will be waiting patiently for our butterflies!! This week we will be making our own model of the life cycle of a butterfly. Thank you to the Sousa and Constantino families for sending in some model magic clay for this, but we still need a little more. If you have any green or white model magic floating around, we could use some for our science projects. Thank you!!!!!
We are in the midst of year end assessments with our writing assessments done last week - boy did they all do a FABULOUS JOB! Mrs. Cataldo and I have been saying all year how we have a classroom of great writers. Math assessments will be done this week and we keep plugging away at DRA's. We are very proud of the progress each and every one of our students has made. They work very hard and it shows in their work. Kudos to you and your children!!!!
Don't forget:
Class pictures are tomorrow, May 14th.
Enjoy the last few hours of this wonderful Sunday!!!!
Mrs. M
Mrs. Cataldo
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