The week of May 6-10.

Farm Day was a great success!  We had a wonderful day (without rain) and wonderful parent help!  Thank you for your assistance to make it perfect if you were able to come!  See some pics. below.  I have so many, I had to choose!  The rest will be on our End-of-the-Year video that all will get.

In case I haven't mentioned this yet, you should be able to go back through the year on my blog and save any pictures to your computer.  Each blog is still in the archives.

This week we are  learning about Forces and Interactions: Pushes and Pulls.  We will have fun with this by using hot wheels!  Shh!  The class doesn't know it yet!

Sight words:  use, each (These are our spelling words too!)
Letter of the week--Long u  (u_e, ue, oo, ew)  We'll come up with words to sort in each long u spelling.

Spelling words:
this--th (thumb up sign) and is
use-- us with an e to make it a long u.
each-- ea (when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.) ch (chopping sign)
their-- the and ir  (hard one)
were-- we and er

Math this week!
We are about finished with height, weight, and capacity.  You can help your child understand what is used to measure these attributes by talking about how things would be measured at home.  We haven't used rulers, just linking cubes to measure length.  We've used a balance scale to compare weight and a measure cup to talk about capacity.

Butterflies--One butterfly's chrysalis is turning black, which means it is close to hatching!  We have been writing in our butterfly journal about their progress.  

Coming up!

May 17  Field Day

May 24  Last day of school will be a half day.