Wow! Can you believe it's May already? I hope the weather gets a little warmer!

Here's what we've been doing and what we will be doing:

Language Arts: We're continuing with our Novel unit. Each student chose a novel from our reading area to read. When they finish, they have a menu to choose from of activities they can do. If anyone has any clay or Play-Doh, could we please use it? Some have chosen to show the setting of their novel this way.
Along with novels, we are also going to start our Play unit. We'll go over all parts of a play and then we'll practice some. Our class will be performing three different plays. Keep an eye out for a date - we'll invite you to come see us! It will probably be around the beginning of June.

Math: My math class just completed working with function tables. Next week we'll be revisiting division. We'll continue to have multiplication fact tests on Fridays. I am sooo proud of most of my class! Their numbers really went up!

Science: We'll be finishing up our Populations unit. We'll be talking about predators and food chains/webs.

Word Study: We'll be working with Latin roots next week. This week when I graded the tests, I attached a practice paper for cursive if that child was having difficulty with a certain letter or connection. Please practice these at home.

Important Dates:
May 3 - 2 hour early dismissal
May 6 - Urbana Elementary School's 50th anniversary celebration and the Strawberry Festival. Please remember that students are not allowed to stay after school this year!
May 25 - Our field trip to the Newspost, Mt. Olivet Cemetery, and the Keys stadium. Keep on the lookout for the permission slip.

That's it for now! Have a restful, safe weekend!
Faith Humerick

THE SUN IS OUT!!!! I'm really hoping we see it a lot next week! This will be a short post since we'll be continuing work that we didn't finish this week. Novels will be finished... Anoles will be sent back to the science center... Function tables will be continuing... Not a lot of changes for the week when we come back. I just wanted to post this to say: HAPPY SPRING BREAK! Enjoy the time with your family - I know I will! Faith Humerick

Happy Weekend! I'm hoping the weathermen are right and we'll have a beautiful Sunday! Here's what we've been doing and what we will be doing: Language Arts: We'll be finishing our novels and then starting a self-selection novel unit. With this unit they'll be able to choose their own novel and do activities from a menu. It's always interesting to see what activities students choose to do! Math: My math class is hard at work learning their multiplication facts. We'll be testing them every Friday (I'll be throwing in some addition and subtraction just to keep them on their toes!). We're still working with growing patterns and then will start with function tables. Science: Well, we got our anoles in! Today will be the first day the class gets to observe them and feed them crickets! We'll continue discussing populations of different organisms. Writing: We're finishing up our Just So stories and I'll be typing them for the Quill. I really like to be sure everyone has an entry. Cursive: We're finished with lower case letters and are using it in some of our writing. Now we'll be starting on capital letters. Thanks to all who jumped rope for Jump Rope For Heart! We raised an amazing amount of money! Our next field trip will be on May 25. It's a fun one! We'll be starting out at the Frederick NewsPost... then we'll head to Mt. Olivet Cemetery... then we'll end up at the Key's Stadium for a tour and our packed lunches. I wanted to get the info. out in case you wanted to take off work to come with us! That's all for now! Have a great weekend! Faith Humerick

Here are a few shots of our class at the ESSL (Earth Space Science Lab). Enjoy! Thanks again to Loretta Klein for remembering her camera!!

Happy April Fool's Day!! Wow... the first day of April already! I hope the weather starts to get warmer so we can enjoy the Spring! Here's what we've been doing and what we will be doing: Language Arts: We're still reading our novels. Please ask your child to tell you a summary about what he/she has read so far. Having them use the words first, next, then, and last will help them focus on important events. Next week we'll be working with summaries, comprehension questions, and story maps. Math: My class is continuing to work on patterns and growing patterns. Writing: We've just finished listening to some Just So Stories. We even watched two on a video. We'll begin writing our own next week! Word Study: Next week's words are suffixes again... plurals. s, es, and ies endings. Science: We'll be starting Populations. In fact, we just got our daphnia and algae today! Other critters will be coming soon! Thanks to Loretta Klein - Chase's mom for letting me borrow her flash drive so I can post pictures of our ESSL visit. I, of course, left it at home! I'll try to get them up sometime this weekend! That's it for now - have a wonderful weekend! Mrs. Humerick