Weekly Update May 2-6

Hello,
Happy May! This morning we filled our May calendar with events for the month….and it is definitely busy!  This week we are beginning some of our end of the year assessments.  On Monday I started PALS testing and again on Friday I will be testing students.  It is exciting to see how much they have grown this year!  

Upcoming Events:

May 12: Family Night 5:30-7:00-A note will be coming home today
May 20: Community Walking Tour Field Trip-A note is coming home today

May 26: Early Dismissal 

May 27-May 30: No School

June 1: Mini Courses and Field Day

June 2: Last day of school for students. Early Dismissal

Curriculum Updates:

Readers' Workshop: We are continuing our nonfiction study. This week we will continue to work on determining what's important by using the "5 W's (and H)" Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?, putting information together by noticing how sections fit together, and coming up with our own ideas about what we're learning by thinking, "The idea I'm having is..." or "I think..."

Writers' Workshop: We are getting ready to publish our series books. Students have worked hard to create fiction characters, give their characters a problem and add details to make their stories come to life. We will be working on adding in punctuation, making our writing readable, using our favorite authors to give us ideas about what we can add to our stories, and use our illustrations to tell important details.

Word Study: We will continue to work on using all of our words from this year. Our goal is to not only write them isolation, but also spell them correctly in our writing. We have also been adding many new poems to our poem binders!

Math Workshop: Last we practiced telling and writing time to the hour and half hour. Telling the difference between the hour and minute hand can be tricky sometimes, so keep practicing at home. This week we will begin to explore shapes. We'll learn about the properties of squares, other rectangles, triangles, and circles. We'll also split shapes into equal parts and compose 2-dimensional shapes.

Social Studies: We are continuing our study of communities. This week we will be learning about community helpers, neighborhoods and maps. We will be exploring our playground and drawing a map using a birds eye view. 

Summer Literacy Night

 

When: Monday,  May 23^rd  6-7pm 

Who: Friends and Families of New Directions

 Where: Kaukauna Public Library

 

Why:  To get a jumpstart on summer reading and writing!

 

  Come and get registered for the summer reading program, get a library card (if you don’t already have one), make a summer reading and writing kit and check out the new library!

 

*Students will still have a summer reading program presentation in classrooms and are still able to return summer reading program registrations to school.