Wow! What a busy week... especially yesterday! Not only was it "Take Your Child To Work Day", but it was also Earth Day, AND Math night! Thanks to all who attended Math Night - it was a HUGE success! What a great way to learn/practice math - games!

Here's what we've been doing and what we WILL be doing next week:

Language Arts: We started talking about functional documents - text (usually one page) you read to learn something... We started with recipes - as you know! Thanks to Beth Schwab for typing a lot of them for us! Today we went into the computer lab and worked with a poster and website about nutrition, then we worked with reading directions. Next week we'll be working with pamphlets, menus, and advertisements. If you get the paper, please send in any sale papers you get...thanks!
I loved the book projects! Most were sooo creative! Thanks to Jim McCown for putting them up in the room!

Math: We're still working with capacity and completed a "capacity creature"! We'll touch on milliliters and liters, and then we'll be moving on to some geometry.

Science: We're spending most of our Science time on observing our Populations. We now have anoles, crickets, daphnia, and plants (we just planted the seeds). We'll continue to observe while we begin our Social Studies unit on Resources.

Writing: We're still working with persuasive paragraphs.

Please remember: Permission slips with be coming home soon...
May 14 - our last field trip for the year - We'll be going to the Frederick NewsPost for a tour, stopping off at Mount Olivet Cemetery to listen to some historical facts about Frederick, and ending up at Key's Stadium for a tour and lunch. Mark your calendars - chaperones are welcome!

Have a wonderful weekend - hope the nice weather holds for everyone!
Mrs. Humerick