Friday’s Message:
Yard Sale and Spring Fair
Tomorrow it’s all happening! There is a yard sale in the multi-purpose room in the morning. Starting at noon there’s the Spring Fair for the kids and their families. There will be games, prizes, music, food, and much more. Parents from OUR room are spearheading the return of the Spring Fair (We haven’t had it for a couple of years) Come out and join in the festivities! Thank you Cindy Lynds, Cynthia Frenz, and Liz Hughes, Travis’, Ryan’s, and Jake’s moms, for letting the good times roll!
Auction Art
Yesterday, Mrs. Treese, did an original art lesson with our class; it was a bird in the rain forest. This activity was offered at Joaquin Miller’s Fall Auction. The combined bids of several of our families made our class one of the high bidders. Thank you to the following parents: Jim and Gail, Ariel’s, Margaret and Michael, Claire’s, Ed and Larrain, Margaret’s, Lauri and Scott, Natalie’s, Wayne and Marcia, Tommy’s, and Paula and Paul, William’s.
Appreciation and Visitation
Next week your child will be bringing home an invitation for Open House on Wednesday, May 12th. Prior to the 7:00 classroom visitations, we want to thank our parents for your support this year! Save the date. (See Walkie -Talkie for details)
Star Students
This week the stars were ***Julia Kinkead*** and ***Margaret Bratt.***
Next week the stars are ***Jabreel Bevel*** and***Jake Hughes***
Breads
Elizabeth brought pane dulce from Guatemala, Mexico. She told us it is a sweet bread
that she sometimes eats for breakfast. Claudette, our classroom teacher assistant, also added that in Brazil pane dulce is usually eaten in the afternoon as a snack. Claudette told the five ingredients to make the bread (Can your child tell you the ingredients?)
Claire brought kulich from Russia. Claire’s mom, Margaret, made the bread with the students. She explained that children the age of the kids in the class, often helped make bread. She told how different kinds of breads were considered treats, but that kulich was an extra special bread because it is only eaten a certain time of the year. We used a calendar to see when they could enjoy the kulich . We were right within the dates and we certainly enjoyed it. Claire’s mom culminated their taste of Russia with a story from the country. (recipe attached)
Homework:
READING
Read and record in you Reading Log.
MATH
We reviewed number fact families this week. Students used manipulatives to “prove” the fact is true. (I wasn’t able to help students at this skill group as much as I would have liked.
I was managing the skill groups myself and this activity needed more supervision than I had anticipated) Students started off with two different color tiles, 10 of each color. They combined some tiles and then wrote it as an addition problem. By reversing the order of the numbers, they came up with the same sum. Then they used the same numbers, to make true subtraction problems.
Use manipulatives at home, any small object (beans, buttons, etc,) and have your child prove each fact. After writing the related facts in sentence and column format, students write, then circle the numerals used in each fact family.
I had planned that after students completed one paper ( front and back,) with the original 20 manipulatives, on a second page some students were ready to add 5 or 10 more tiles (depending on student’s ability) of the same colors to their 20.
See comments I made on your child’s paper. Have your child complete the related fact family worksheets at home.
WRITiNG
The weather is great. It’s time to spend more time outdoors. What is one of your favorite things to do when you can be outside. Give lots of information and detail. Write a complete true story.
RECYCLE PROJECT
I read the story Galimoto, by Catherine Stock. It’s about a kid that makes a toy out of recycled materials. Your child’s homework is to make something out of recycled materials. Be creative. Your child will share what s/he made and where the materials came from.