Portraits

Pictures came home yesterday afternoon. If you do not plan on purchasing them, please send them back to school. Thanks!

Keep Reading This Summer!

Summer is just a few short weeks away! I wanted to share with you information about St. Louis County Library's summer reading program. I participate every year, and will be doing so with my son this summer also! It's a fun way to keep the reading momentum going and continue to help your child grow.

https://www.slcl.org/content/summer-reading-clubs-whole-family-0

Current Essential Questions

Here are the essential questions we are currently working on:

Writing: What do writers learn from other writers? How do writers of nonfiction engage their readers? Why do writers revise? What do writers think about when they revise? How can working with a partner improve a piece of writing?

Math:  How do we describe shapes and objects?  How can geometric figures be constructed?

Reading: Why do readers read nonfiction texts? How do readers become experts on topics of personal interest? Why do readers collaborate? How do readers get to know their characters well? What can readers learn from characters and their experiences?

Science: How can you tell if something is living? What do living things need in order to stay alive?
How are plants and animals alike and different?

New Unit - Science

This week we are beginning our Living Organisms unit in Science! The essential questions for this unit are:

How can you tell if something is living?
What do living things need in order to stay alive?
How are plants and animals alike and different?

During this unit students will observe real live organisms in our classroom. Arriving tomorrow will be some insects as well as some freshwater fish and snails. We usually have fish available at the end of the unit. Do let me know if you are interested in having any come home with you! There's the possibility of bess beetles or millipedes being available, too.

Geometry

We are well into our geometry unit. During this unit students will:

- identify shapes based on their defining attributes.
- build shapes with defining attributes.
- draw shapes with defining attributes.
- sort shapes by their defining attributes.
- recognize when an attribute is non-defining.
- use two or more 2-D shapes to create new shapes (e.g., put triangles together to make a rhombus or a hexagon).
-use two or more 3-D shapes to create new shapes (e.g., combine two right triangular prisms to create -a right rectangular prism).
-make new shapes from composite shapes.
-recognize what shapes are used to make composite shapes.
-partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares.
-describe equal shares as halves, fourths, or quarters.
use the phrases half of, fourth of, or quarter of.

I encourage you to discuss 2-D and 3-D shapes with your children at home. Notice all the shapes in our world!

Volunteer Applications

Some volunteer records may have been lost and need to be updated.

1. Visit parkwayschools.net

2.Underneath the employment tab - select volunteer packets

3. Select volunteer application

4. Complete application

Please note if you want to join us for the field trip, this will need to be updated! 

Thanks for your help with this!

Word Work This Week

We will be working on several blends again this week:

fr-  gr-  pr-  tr-

and the accountable word is: this