... And They All Lived Happily Ever After!

What a wonderful week!  We cannot believe it is almost May already!  Next week, we will wrap up Fairy Tales and Folktales, and then we will be onto our short Merry Month of May!

Language Arts Block
In guided groups, we continued working with Readers' Theater scripts.  They have done such a great job practicing reading with expression- we are looking forward to watching their puppet shows next week!

"A cone is just a cone, until you add a sphere.  Then it becomes cotton candy!"

Noun, Verb, and Adjective sort

Writing sentences

Readers' Theater!

Adding our characters!!!

Writing our own fairy tales

Listening to Stone Soup

Using Geoboards to review 2D shapese

Finding different fairy tale story starters

Readers' Theater!

Fairy Tale puzzles on the iPads

Math

We continued our unit of SHAPES!!  We have been learning all about 2D and 3D shapes for the past several weeks.  Students continued building on their knowledge of shape attributes by giving mystery problems to their partners (I have two shapes in my hand with a total of 7 sides, what two shapes do I have), went on a shape scavenger hunt, learned a 3D shape poem, and much much more!  On Wednesday, we took a break from shapes and created some Earth Day word problems.  I gave the students the answer (The answer is 26 plastic bottles), and they came up with the problem!  

3D Shape Hunt

"My two shapes come together to make a hexagon, what two shapes do I have?"

"My two shapes have a total of 9 sides!  What two shapes do I have?"

3D Shape Rap

Social Studies

We have been hard at work preparing for our puppet shows!  Students have been working on reading with expression, creating play banners, and making puppets for our show.  They will present with their groups in front of the class next week.  

They have done such a wonderful job so far!

TNT:  We have been learning all about the valuable resources our Earth provides for us for the past couple weeks.  During TNT, in celebration of Earth Day, we created our own Earth Circles, detailing what we can do to help our planet!  

Hands-on-Science

We made our own beanstalks to go along with Jack and the Beanstalk! We talked about what plants need to grow and made a hypothesis for when our lima bean will sprout.  We can't wait to watch them grow!

Computer Lab

We visited www.braingle.com to play a logic game with Jack and the Beanstalk

Spelling:

Skill: irregular plurals

Words: brushes, foxes, bosses, boxes, lunches, dresses, glasses, matches, wishes, dishes

Challege: lemonade, children, Haiti, geese 

SURPRISE!!!!!????????

INFORMATION FOR OUR STAND:

1. The children have created fliers to help market their lemonade and cookie stand. We realize this is somewhat "old school" but it is one way the children can really be involved. We are instructing the kids to distribute the fliers around their neighborhoods with an adult. We also encourage distribution at parents' workplaces- only if appropriate. We will send these home at the beginning of the week!

2. On Tuesday or Monday of next week, I will send out an email blast that you can forward on to anyone and everyone you know-as a means of further advertisement; friends, family, neighborhood associations, etc. THANK YOU!

3. You can drop off items starting Thursday afternoon at 805 W. 58th Terrace (58th Street and Summit-the home of Jeff, Mary, Evelyn & Gibbs Morris). There will be a designated area in the back area for items to be dropped off. 

Thank you for your support! The response has been amazing. WOW! Your children are learning what it truly means to give and how good giving makes you feel.

OTHER REMINDERS:

1. Thursday April, 30th-your child may come to school dressed as their favorite fairy tale or folktale character. The information on this came home Monday. This is completely OPTIONAL! It is the last day of our theme and just one way we celebrate.

2. Friday, May 1st: A PENNY OR A DIME - MAKE HAITI SHINE! 4-6PM @ 58TH & SUMMIT!