A Peek At The Week:

Literacy

• We read these stories: My Five Senses, Aliki's Five Senses, Hear Your Heart, When It's the Last Day of School, and What Dad's Can't Do.
• We learned all about the five senses this week! Seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling!
• We had two writing times. I hope you are enjoying your child's writing binder! Don't stop now.. any time they write this summer, stick it in there!
• We made some special things for our father's! Happy Father's Day!
• After reading Hear Your Heart, we used paper towel tubes to listen to each other's beating hearts!
• We sorted items by which sense we would use most to sense them.

Math

• We had to use recipes to make the delicious fudge and Chex mix for our Open House refreshments.

Science

• We did so much with our five senses this week!
• Taste- We learned about the different kinds of things we taste and had a taste test of salty, sweet, sour, and bitter foods. Not many of us like the bitter baker's chocolate!
• Touch- We made a touch book with different textured items, we made our recycled paper with Mrs. Main (wait till you see it, it's beautiful! Thank you Mrs. Main! It was very gooey to begin with), we used our feet only to feel blocks in socks to try and guess what shape they were (that was pretty silly)
• Smell- We used our noses to guess what different kinds of foods were in covered yogurt containers... we were pretty good guessers!
• Hear- We used paper towel tubes to hear our hearts, we listened to sounds on Miss Ripstein's computer to try to guess what they were
• Sight- We made our very own binoculars and went on a sight walk to see new and interesting things around our school

Technology

• I will hopefully get a chance to update the website after school gets out with the Chewonki pictures. It's been very busy here!

Other

• We got to meet with our fourth grade buddies one last time and had popsicles. We'll miss them but wish them luck at the middle school!
• We had a wonderful Community Games day with Mrs. Hanson and Miss Rideout!
• Thank you to all who attended our Open House Tuesday! The children were so proud of all they have accomplished this year (as am I!) and couldn't wait to share with you!

Reminders / Important Information:

Boy is the end of the year busy! Here is a list of what's to come!

• I have included a "short" list of 100 fun things to do with your child this summer to keep them on their toes for first grade. Mostly, just read, read, and read some more... and then write, write, write!
• Thank you for all of your support at home this year. I truly love this class and will miss them!
• Monday, June 19th- Last Day of School/ Move Up Day (School dismissed at 11:00) We will be going to the Community Playground this day as well! Parents and family are welcome to meet us there. We will be there from 9:00-10:30. Be sure your children wear sneakers and appropriate clothing. Also sunblock, water, hats...
• Report cards also go home this day. If you have any questions/concerns, I will be checking my e-mail all summer and will be in and out of the school as well.

Getting ooey-gooey while making our recycled paper.

Mrs. Main showed us how to carefully pull up the screen with our wet paper on it.

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