Week 31 (April 22-26)

Hello, families and friends! We had a fun week studying insects! Coincidentally, the Pre-K class came into ours to talk about their service learning project: Give Bees a Chance. The goal of their presentation was to encourage people to plant more pollinator-friendly plants and to raise awareness about bees as an endangered species. Their class is preparing a beekeeper shop that will take place on Tuesday, April 30. All classes have an opportunity to shop or donate money to help save the bees! Please send a few dollars with your child next Tuesday so they may shop or donate to this important cause. 🙂 All donations and proceeds will be sent to the organization, Environment America.

Monday-

Journaling…

Center Time…

Life Cycle of a Butterfly…

Tuesday…

Silent, Sustained Reading-

Centers…

Math

Image of the Week From Multiplicity Lab

How many tiles are missing?

How do you see them?

How do you know?

Wednesday–

The Year Of Billy Miller is our new read-aloud novel.

When Billy Miller has a mishap at the statue of the Jolly Green Giant at the end of summer vacation, he ends up with a big lump on his head. What a way to start second grade, with a lump on your head! As the year goes by, though, Billy figures out how to navigate elementary school, how to appreciate his little sister, and how to be a more grown up and responsible member of the family and a help to his busy working mom and stay-at-home dad.

Newbery Honor author and Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes delivers a short, satisfying, laugh-out-loud-funny school and family story that features a diorama homework assignment, a school poetry slam, cancelled sleepovers, and epic sibling temper tantrums. This is a perfect short novel for the early elementary grades.

We also read How to Build an Insect. Written by an entomologist, this fun picture book showed us all of the parts of the insect anatomy. Tomorrow we will use what we learned from this book to make insect models. We will be sure to include the head, thorax, abdomen, antennae, exoskeleton, 6 legs, feet, wings, 5 eyes, ears, mouth, and spiracles.

Thursday–

Building insects with clay-