Monday, May 23, 2016

Weekly News May 23-27, 2016

Homework: Continue to work on your timeline homework. This assignment will be due June 3rd. The reading log and math packet are due on Friday. Please return them in the yellow folder. Please make sure you sign your child’s reading log.
Please send your child to school with a water bottle. Is is easier for the students to get drinks than to have to leave the room.
Sing and Swing is on Thursday at 2:00.
Language Arts: We will work with oo/oo words in our word work. Our opinion writing focus continues. We will begin to focus on informative writing later this week.
Mathematics: We will begin chapter 18 on lines and surfaces. Please see the School to Home connection sheet.
Cursive: We will finish our kite string letters.
Science: We will work solids this week. Students will learn about the vocabulary words that are used to describe solid materials. These words include flexible, rigid, smooth, rough, soft, hard, colored pointed, flat, transparent, opaque and translucent.
 Ways you can help at home: Read and talk about the most important part in the story and why you think that was the most important. Look for oo/oo words. Identify solid materials. Describe the characteristics that make it a solid.