This week we will…

-Read the story, Ben Franklin and His First Kite, and discuss how we can use something familiar in a new way.

-Work with the prefixes re and un as in reopen and unhappy.

-Take our FINAL Star Reading Test.

-Practice our spelling words: unhappy, refill, untie, undo, repay, unkind, undress, retell, reopen, refund, different carry. Bonus: answered.

-Work with the high-frequency words (word wall words): answered, brothers, carry, different, poor.

-Continue the study of pronouns in our writing.

-Wrap-up Rocket Math.

-Continue our work with money by identifying coins and bills and comparing and calculating the value of mixed sets of coins and bills. And begin calculating change due after making purchases.

-Begin individual and whole group assessments for report cards.

-Continue mapping out the travels of FS. A huge Todah Rabah to our host families for sharing their knowledge with us!

Reminders:

-We will have no school on Monday, 5/28. We hope you enjoy Shavuot and Memorial Day!

-There is a Talent Show on Thursday, 5/31, at 2:30 pm.

-Our final homework packet is due on Friday, 6/1!

-Our final All School Shabbat is on Friday, 6/1.

-Our last day of school is on Thursday, 6/7. We will have a party to celebrate with a special treat and join the whole school for year book signing and farewells.

Below is an e-mail from Lt. O’Neill in response to the care packages sent by our class:

“Your generosity is amazing.  The guys opened the boxes with me.  When we opened them and saw the toys, beef jerky, and magazines everyone was like this is great.  Especially awesome were the mini cliff bars and the beef jerky.  The chocolates made it ok.  Silly string was awesome as well. People were grabbing snacks and putting them in their drawers and sharing—it was awesome.  Everyone also liked to read the cards from the kids.  It is such a morale booster to know that people at home genuinely care enough to support us.  I think everyone got to share in the goodies…some people were super excited for the Entertainment magazines to learn about new movies, some were excited for women’s health, and some were excited for the water balloons. We just cant thank you and your parents enough.  There was truly something for everyone in those boxes.”

This week we will…

-Read the story, Alexander Graham Bell, and discuss how great ideas change the way we live.

-Work with the the vowel sound in /aw/ and /au/ as in “saw” and “pause”.

-Take our FINAL AR test on Wednesday.

-Practice our spelling words: saw, draw, crawl, straw, law, jaw, paw, lawn, yawn, hawk, through, science. Bonus: learn and telephone.

-Work with the high-frequency words (word wall words): built, early, learn, science, through.

-Study the use of “I” and “me” in our writing.

-Continue with our Rocket Math program, and use the time to review addition and subtraction facts with the children who have “soared” through our Rocket Chart. Our final day of Rocket Math will be on 5/30. We will then gather all Rocket Math folders and make copies of additional tests so your child can work on these over the summer. These folders will be sent home at the beginning of the last week of school.

-Work with money by identifying coins and bills and comparing and calculating the value of mixed sets of coins and bills.

-Begin individual and whole group assessments for report cards–can you believe there are only 12.5 days of school left?!?!

-Continue mapping out the travels of FS. A huge Todah Rabah to our host families for sharing their knowledge with us!

Reminders:

-Tuesday, 5/22, is Rosh Chodesh and Dress-Down Day.

-Wednesday, 5/23, is our final AR test. Please begin returning all MJGDS library books.

-Friday, 5/25, is our Bikkurim Festival. Please check out the details under Morah Rachel’s post.

-We will have no school on Monday, 5/28. We hope you enjoy Shavuot and Memorial Day!

-There is a Talent Show on Thursday, 5/31, at 2:30 pm.

-Our final All School Shabbat is on Friday, 6/1.

-Our last day of school is on Thursday, 6/7. We will have a party to celebrate with a special treat and join the whole school for year book signing and farewells.

This week we will…

-Read the story, Simple Machines, and discuss the difference that great ideas can make. We’ll also learn about great ideas that have made our lives easier.

-Work with the diphthongs oi and oy (foil, boy) and suffixes -er and -or (painter, inventor.)

-Select AR books and enjoy reading groups.

-Practice our spelling words: oil, soil, voice, point, boy, boil, coin, oink, toy, joy, against, heavy. Bonus: goes, inventor, writer.

-Work with the high-frequency words (word wall words): against, goes, heavy, kinds, today.

-Study pronouns and write about an invention we’d like to create to make our lives easier.

-Continue with our Rocket Math program, and use the time to review addition and subtraction facts with the children who have “soared” through our Rocket Chart.

-Work with telling time to the nearest hour and half hour. We’ll also work with understanding events of the day such as morning, afternoon and night and estimating time. A “Friendly Notes” packet will be sent home by Tuesday.

Reminders:

-We hope to see you at our All School Shabbat on Friday at 3:15.

-We are so excited that our Flat Stanleys are returning to school! So far we’ve learned about the states of Washington, New Jersey, Connecticut and Tennessee. We’ve also visited Rome. We can’t wait to continue this project!

This week we will…

-Read the story, Henry and Mudge and Mrs. Hopper’s House, and discuss what treasures we share with our neighbors.

-Work with suffixes and the vowel sound ‘oo’ as in moon.

-Select AR books and enjoy reading groups.

-Practice our spelling words: slowly, careful, quickly, useful, painful, playful, sadly, gladly, nicely, wonderful, because, across. There are NO bonus words this week.

-Work with the high-frequency words (word wall words): across, because, dance, only, opened, shoes, told.

-Continue our study of adjectives with a focus on adjectives that compare such as tall, taller, tallest.

-Continue with our Rocket Math program, and use the time to review addition and subtraction facts with the children who have “soared” through our Rocket Chart.

-Work with fractions and use the words such as whole, half, and fourth, halves, fourths, etc.

-Continue our study of Force and Motion.

Reminders:

-A HUGE thank you goes out to all our amazing families for such an awesome showing of support for our “Operation Todah Rabah” project. We mailed out SEVEN boxes and will keep you posted when they arrive to the ship.