5/16 to 5/20

 Upcoming Events:

• 5/16 Week—iReady Testing

• 5/18 Dress-Up: Purple/NDLC Wear

• 5/20 NDLC Field Day–Outside all PM

• 5/27 Early Release and Writing Celebration (You're Invited!!)

• 5/30 No School

• 6/2: Last Day of School & Early Release

Gym Shoes/Socks:

Remember to make sure your student has gym shoes and socks each day.   Many students are coming in crocs or sandals.  This week is the mile run and students need to be equipped with the right shoes to run safely.

Writing

In writing we are going to be reviewing all the work that we have done this year.  Students are going to get the free write option to write how-to’s, opinions, narratives, realistic fiction, or nonfiction.  It is our hope that we get students thinking about how they can do this same type of writing through the summer! 

Just a reminder about our end of unit writing celebration.  We set this time up so that parents who want to take their students home can, as it’s an early release day. We will likely end the celebration closer to 11:20 so that Y-Care can come into the Cafeteria. 

YOU ARE INVITED TO A WRITING CELEBRATION

When: May 27th, at 11:00 (this is a ½ day of school)

Where: NDLC School Cafeteria

Why: Students will share the great work they did in the Insect Research Unit. 

 Math

In math we are working on our Geometry Unit. Students continue to study shapes. In addition they are working to form arrays using square tiles. With each array students are writing equations that match. We are starting to introduce the idea of multiplication with the use of arrays.

Reading

In reading we are reading: fantasy, fairy tales, folktales and fables. We are reviewing all the ways to decode tricky words in these texts, along with how to stop and think about what a word means.

If you wanted to start looking around your house for school books-- you can start sending those back in! I wish I had a better system to recognize which books belong to school but these are things to be on the look out for: books that say Wittmann, books with Tuma in the inside cover, books with colored stickers in the corner, or books that say NDLC on the back. Then just reminding students they need to take them out of their backpacks and bring them into the classroom.