Upcoming Attractions

Teacher Appreciation Week

This week Howard school is celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week. A flyer was sent home with the activities involved. Today, the PTA provided a nice luncheon for the the teachers today. Also, some of my room moms decorated my bulletin board beautifully.

Birthday Bash (Thursday 5.2.19) 12:00 pm

Our classroom’s Birthday Bash is this Thursday at 12:00. If you want to bring something for the Bash, please let the PTA mom’s know, so everyone doesn’t bring the same thing. Their phone numbers are at the bottom of the Teacher Appreciation Week flyer.

Curriculum Night (Thursday 5.2.10) 5:00-6:30 pm

This Thursday is Howard School Curriculum Night. As in other years there will be many activities/games going on in the classrooms. Each session lasts for about 20 minutes, then when the bell rings you move onto another room.

Muffins For Mom (Friday 5.3.19) 7:45-8:45 am

Howard School is sponsoring  “Muffins For Mom”. A little treat for the moms in the school cafeteria on Friday morning from 7:45-8:45.

Field Trip: Greenfield Village (May 15th) 9:00-2:15

Money/Permission slips for the field trip was due this Monday. It’s $10.00 a per child and/or chaperone. If you have a membership it’s free. We will be leaving at 9:00 even though its a “late start” day, because we have to be back by around 2:15 for the buses to get to the next  job.

Curriculum Update

Science: Life Science: Animals

*How do they protect themselves?

*Where are their habitats?

*What do they do/need to survive?

*What are their movements/actions?

*Comparing adult animals to their babies.

Social Studies Unit 4 “How Do We Learn About the Past?”

*Identifying things in the past, present, and future.

*Identifying the parts of a calendar.

*Identifying artifacts(evidence) of the past.

*Identifying national holidays.

*Comparing schools today with schools in the past.

*Comparing families to families in the past.

Reading: Comprehension

Students are reading short stories, and the answering questions about the stories. Students are highlighting where the answer is found in the test, and then they write their answer in sentence form; not just a word or two. This goes along with the statements they write in Math.

Grammar

We are finishing up with antonyms(words that mean the opposite) and synonyms(words that mean the same thing). Next we will be starting verb endings (s, es, ing, ed). This will help with their writing and reading fluency.

Writing

Informational writing: Earth Day project

Realistic Fiction: Writing a story about something that could really happen, but not necessarily to themselves.

Math: Module 4

*Place value for 2 digit numbers (tens and ones)

*Adding and subtracting 10 and 1 from 2 digit numbers

*Comparing numbers with symbols and phrases. (is greater than, is less than, and is equal to)

*Addition and subtraction up to 40.

That’s All For Now!!!