A peek at our week 4/27/18

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

** Newly added dates are marked with ** for those who follow and mark their calendars every week.

**Sunday, April 29th: Memorial-Spaulding Spring Gardening Project 1-3 p.m. Click HERE to sign up.

Monday, April 30th: China Projects Due. Your children have been sharing their learning already as we are studying the topics that they are studying at home. It's been really exciting to them to teach their classmates. Click HERE to access the information sheet if you need it.

Thursday, May 3rd: CAP session 1. Please send back signed CAP forms by this Monday.  Your child needs a signed form to participate. They are attached to the email sent on 4/27.

Thursday, May 3rd: 12:30 Release

**Saturday, May 5th: Memorial-Spaulding Community Gala 7 p.m.- 11 p.m. (I am so disappointed that I will not be able to join all of of you in this wonderful event. It is my son's 9th birthday and we will be hosting a slew of 3rd grade boys for a sleepover that night...Wish me luck!)

Monday, May 28th: NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day

Thursday, May 31st: International Festival

Thursday, 6/7: Children's Museum field trip

Friday, June 22: Last day of school for students. NOON release.

ASK ME ABOUTS: 

Ask me about...

• the pourquoi tale I am writing. What question is my pourquoi tale answering? How did the change happen? 
• the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. Why are they important to the people of China?
• homophones...what are they and what are some examples?
• using an open number line to show the difference between numbers, as we did when we solved number stories.
• the zones of regulation. What are the red, yellow, green and blue zones?\
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (a chapter book by Grace Lin, set in China, that we have been reading as a class). What problem is Minli trying to solve?
• my new pet(s) in the classroom. What are they and what will they become? 

LOOKING FORWARD:

Looking forward, we will:

• finish writing our pourquoi tales and share them with each other.
• finish unit 13 in fundations, focusing on the vowel teams oa, oe and ow and move into unit 14, focusing on the vowel teams ou (as in trout) and ow (as is plow).
• learn about life for children in urban and rural China and compare their lives to our own. 
• explore the Forbidden City and find our what the Forbidden City can teach us about Chinese culture and history.
• begin careful observations of our caterpillars.
• create graphs from data and explore fractions in math.

Enjoy the weekend!