Happy Loren Long Day!

We had a great time this week with the warm weather and a lot of learning! Check out Twitter to see pictures from this week.  Make sure to ask your kiddo about Shelly (a frozen baby turtle we rescued from the mulch on the playground).

Loren Long

• Today, we were able to see Loren Long; the author of the "Otis" books! We used his writing as mentor texts to write our own Otis books, so it was very cool to meet him in person. The students always have such amazing questions for visiting authors, and it was great to hear the questions that stemmed from our class readings of Loren Long books and our writing.  

Seesaw

• Today, we introduced an interactive website Seesaw.  We are going to use this for students to complete assignments and for us to be able to give feedback.  Their first assignment was to take a picture of their new Fundation passage called "Surprise" and then read it fluently.  Ask you kiddo about it.  Once 

Friday Folders

• In Friday folders this week, you will find a Fundations test. This test was pretty difficult because we had a lot of options for our long /e/ sounds and none of them had rules. We practiced using our Monster Book (mini dictionary) during the unit, and when it comes to applying that to a test it can be difficult. When looking over the test with your child, please talk to them about using our resources to help use spell.

Upcoming Events

• April 16: Field trip to the Art and Archaeology Museum
• Sack lunch needed
• April 23: RBE Family Eat-Out Fundraiser at Panera
• May 10: Runge field trip
• Sack lunch needed
• We will get ice cream at the end of the field trip, so $2 will be needed. We will ask for this to be sent in with the permission slip that will come home in a few weeks.
• May 15: Field Day
• May 17: Family Lunch Bunch
• 11:00 - eat lunch with child in pavilion
• 11:30 - recess with child on playground
• 11:45 - writing celebration in the classroom
• May 17: Crazy Hair Day
• May 23: Variety Dhow
• May 27: No school- Memorial Day
• May 28: Last day of school
• Dismissal at 12:10

Look at All This Learning!

Math

• In math this week, we have been reviewing our geometry vocab and been working on using equal parts both with partitioning shapes and arrays. On Monday, we will be taking our cumulative test that goes over what we have learned so far in math. On Wednesday, we will be taking our Unit 8 test and Unit 9 pretest. We will then be starting an introductory unit on fractions.

Writing

• This week, we worked on using Loren Long's books as mentor texts to create our own Otis books. Next week, we will finish up our "Which is Better" opinion writing. 

Fundations

• In Fundations this week, we finished up our unit on the /e/ sound. We took a test on Tuesday over Unit 11. On Thursday, we started a new unit over oi and oy. Next week, we will finish up this short unit and take our Unit 12 test on Friday.

Reading

• In reading this week, we worked on finding character's point of view in a book. We talked about how point of view can be different between characters and how one character can change another's point of view. Next week, we will begin making connections: text to self, text to text, and text to world.

Science

• In science this week, we finished up our unit on Earth's changes. Next week, we will start a unit on food chains and life cycles. Today, we started a experiment to go along with this unit that focuses on what plants need to survive. We made hypotheses and decided which plants we think will grow the most and which ones we think will not survive.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know. Have a great weekend!