1st Two Weeks of May

The school is hosting Movement May this month.  There is an emphasis throughout the school to incorporate more movement into our classrooms.  Each day our class has been doing Just Dance videos to get up and get moving so our minds are ready to learn for math.  On Thursday of this week, we had the privilege of doing Zumba with Miss Niles.  The class really enjoyed this activity.  The day of the Jog-a-thon we will be learning how to hula hoop.  The students are looking forward to this added activity each day. (Check out some of our photos in the smilebox.)

Last week on Tuesday we had Hands on Nature.  Students learned about the life cycle of a frog, toad and the red newt.  We also learned that each of these animals is an amphibian.  They saw a puppet show, heard different frog calls, broke up in to groups to put one of the amphibian's life cycles in order and then headed outside to see if they could find frog eggs.

We are on our last unit in math.  This unit focuses on change.  In our first module we looked at elapsed time and how long a second is, a minute and an hour.  Then we looked at how numbers change through a homemade change container and looked for the rule of how the numbers were changing.  Now we are moving on to looking at how paper gliders change position.  The last section we will cover at the end of the month is how we have changed since we were a baby. 

In writing we finished our opinion pieces last week and shared on Friday in small groups.  They did a nice job on these pieces.  You will see them in their portfolios when they come home at the end of the year.  This week we began a unit on poetry.  Write now we are learning about how it is written.  Next week we will begin writing some of our own poems.

Next Friday, May 23rd,  we will be going to Shelburne Farms to learn about things from long ago.  This is the unit we have started in Social Studies.  Students will need to bring a lunch on that day as we will be eating at Shelburne Farms.

Have a wonderful weekend,
Nancy