Week 34

ablauwkaClass News

Tutoring:

  • If you are interested in summer tutoring for your child please contact one of our excellent tutors below. Most of them will be holding sessions here at GES.
    • PRIVATE TUTORING OPTION: Achieve Tutoring, Jenison; 616-916-8989

Notes for parents:

  • Please send a towel back to school with your child. With the nice weather, hopefully, we’ll be able to learn outside more again!
  • We will be having a little ice cream party this coming Friday to celebrate all our growth this year! If you would like to donate any supplies, please view the sign-up sheet here.
  • The due date for our last time to order from Scholastic this year is Thursday, May 20. There is an option to have it shipped to your house. As soon as you create/pay your “send to my house order” it will finalize and ship to you. Otherwise, it should arrive at the end of May or the last week.

Upcoming Dates:

  • Monday, May 17 – Gym, LIBRARY BOOKS DUE
  • Tuesday, May 18 – Art
  • Wednesday, May 19 – STEAM
  • Thursday, May 20 – Music
    • Body Safety Presentation
    • Scholastic book orders due
  • Friday, May 21 – Music
    • Early Release (students dismissed at 12:15 pm)
    • Ice Cream Party

CELEBRATIONS

Craft Day: For earning another 10 stars, the class voted on having a craft day! We had some fun crafting a variety of things on Friday. We had watercolor paint, beads, puff balls, stickers, and lots of fun colored paper and coloring pages. The kiddos had a blast having some free time to be creative and make whatever they wanted to!

Star Students: Our Star Students this week were Atticus, Ellery, Isaiah, Gabba, and Norah. They were able to bring in a stuffie for the day!

Mystery Reader: We had Major’s grandpa as our Mystery Reader this week! He read the book Copycat Dog. Thanks for “visiting” our classroom for this fun read aloud!

Birthdays: This week we celebrated Tucker and Norah’s birthdays. Happy birthday, Tucker and Norah!

Family Time: No new friends joined the lost tooth club or shoe-tying club this week.

  • Quote of the Week: All of our friends have received a quote!

This week’s quote – You are braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

LEARNING

Writing: Students wrapped up their realistic fiction series for our From Scenes to Series unit of study! This week we focused on using correct punctuation and using illustrations to tell important details. We learned that writers can use illustrations to give clues about the setting, bring characters to life, tell secrets to the reader, and add extra realistic details.

Word Study: We’ll be spending these last few weeks reviewing some of the most important foundational skills that our first graders need to know in order to be successful second grade readers and writers. This week, we practiced sorting long and short vowel sounds. For example, “cut” has a short vowel sound, and “cute” has a long vowel sound.

Math: We continued learning about shapes this week, and the kiddos learned the names of some 3D shapes as well: sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism, cone and cube. We also learned how we can put both 2D shapes and 3D shapes together to create new shapes. Towards the end of the week, we started studying measurement and what the words longest and shortest mean. We practiced putting items in order from shortest to longest and vice versa. On Friday, we learned we can measure things with length units such as paper clips. We took a quiz over both shapes and measurement this week, and we will be taking our unit 7 test next week.

Reading: This week we wrapped up our Meeting characters and Learning Lessons Unit. We worked on learning lessons from our books and talked about how the lessons we learn in a book can be like a fortune from a fortune cookie.  We made comparisons and practiced giving our opinions about the books we have read. We will end the year with a review of non-fiction books.

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