Earth Day!

Thank you to our PTO for providing reusable bags for all the students!  We were also given the book, How to Help the Earth - by the LORAX.  What a nice addition to our classroom library!

Open House  It was great to see every student at our Open House last night!  I enjoyed visiting with you and your children LOVED having you come to our classroom to see their work.  Thanks also to those families that gave money toward books for our classroom.  I was able to buy a huge stack of new books for our room!  We always love new books!

Dates to Remember
April 27 - May 1- MAPS testing  (Tuesday and Thursday)
                           *  Please be sure your child is well rested and brings a healthy snack to school.
April 30 - Reading Incentive ~ Fuzzy Friend Day
May 1 - Gym Night
             Progress Reports sent home on an "as needed" basis
Wed. May 13 - Field Trip to Brookfield Zoo
                         *  Bring a sack lunch  Please return permission slip asap

Reading  We will read and compare 2 texts this week, Owls and Owl Moon.  One is realistic fiction, the other a non-fiction story.  We will discuss point of view as well as retelling.   Grammar lesson will focus on adjectives.

Vocabulary words for the week are:  clearing, echo, meadow, owling, pumped, shadows, threading.

April Reading Logs should be completed and returned on Friday, May 1.

Math  We have completed our unit on Time, Data, and Graphs and have started the next chapter, Working With Equal Groups. We have learned about arrays and will continue to practice repeated addition next week.  We'll compete the chapter next week by writing number sentences and drawing pictures to match.

Estimation Jar - Joseph, Sean, and Aleck