Week ending 4/28/17

Another month has passed and we have hit 141 days in school!  Can you believe it?  Only 39 days left this year with so much left to do!
Important information:

• We will continue to go out for recess, so be sure to send appropriate clothing.  
• If you have any cleaning wipes at your house that you'd like to donate, we'll gladly take them.  
• Monday, May 29th, there is no school for Memorial Day.

3, 2, 1 things happening in room 250...

3 fables we've read this week were Frogs and the Well, Boy Who Cried Wolf, and the Crow and the Pitcher.  We've been focusing on the lesson the story is trying to teach us.   

*We read the Ant and the Dove today...ask your child what the lesson/idea was for that fable.

2 math stretching your thinking activities we did this week were finishing up a Coins activity independently and working on a new one called Color Day.  It was amazing watching the students work, share ideas, discuss their math thinking, explain their understanding or confusion, and works through what was difficult to come to a start of solving it.  This one was tricky!  We focused on showing the math work and talking about it is so much more important sometimes than just the actual answer.  Students took time to check out each other's work very quietly and respectfully and noticed all the different ways the problems could be solved.  Another great mind stretching activity for all students, no matter where they are in their math journey.  

1 fabulous presentation we had this week was from the Museum of Science on life cycles!  We learned about life cycles for mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, played guessing games, and saw the largest living thing!  Amazing!  

*Ask your child what the largest living thing is!

Here's a few pics for you to see...

Bearded Dragon

 Using our bodies to show the life cycle of a plant

 M helping to show us the life cycle of an amphibian.