April 30, 2010

It's FRIDAY!

Language Arts: This week was a lot of fun for the kids and me...we finished up our Functional Documents - we've now shared favorite recipes, how-to directions, menus, advertisements, and lots of others! We'll be starting some Social Studies reading about our local government next week.

Social Studies: We started a unit entitled "Econ and Me:. They are being exposed to vocabulary such as: economic problems, opportunity cost, goods, services, income, consumption, etc. Through discussion, the students are using the vocabulary to discuss the story Econ is teaching.

Science: Our anole friends left us...don't worry...they didn't "leave us, leave us", they went back to the science center. But our daphnia...well, they died. And even though the kids no longer have populations living in their classroom, they have a better understanding of food chains.

Math: We've been working with "big" numbers... reading them, writing them, and showing them in different ways. Next week we'll be focusing on some comparing of large numbers and Geometry.

Important dates to remember: Friday, May 7 - Wetlands Celebration (there is a document coming home today about this that you need to see, it asks if you'd like to join us!)
Tuesday, May 14 - field trip permission slips went home today...please return these as soon as you can...this field trip is free thanks to the generous grant we receive from the PTA!!

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Humerick