June is approaching!

Good afternoon everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, enjoying the great weather. I have a few important announcements regarding the notes that went home today.  One is a permission form for our Fort Edmonton field trip.  This trip will take place on June 15th.  The permission form is due back next Thursday, June 8th, along with $13.25 to cover the cost of bus transportation and the programs/fees for Fort Edmonton. The second of the two forms is just information stating that next year, all permission forms will be online. We will not send paper copies home.


Language Arts

We are just finishing up reading and studying Charlotte's Web.  The students have really taken to the characters in the book, especially Charlotte, the very wonderful spider.  Once we are done our novel study, we will be looking at the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  The students will be ordering events of the story, as well as retelling the story, using their own, made up characters. For example, a student from last year, their story was called Goldilocks and the Three Alligators.  The characters and the critical objects in the story are adapted to related to Alligators.  Each students will make up their own characters.


Math

We have finished our addition and subtraction to 100 unit.  We have begun learning about 2D shapes and 3D objects.  The students need to be able to name different shapes (square, triangle, circle, rectangle) and sort them based on different attributes (number of sides/vertices, straight sides, curved sides). When we get into 3D objects, students must be able to do the same but now with objects such as spheres, prisms, cylinders, and pyramids. They need to know what vertices, faces, sides, and edges are, and what they belong to.  (Shapes have sides and vertices, objects have faces, edges, and vertices).

Science

Our last science unit is Small Crawling and Flying Animals.  Our field trip to Miquelon Lake was a great introduction to learning about different small animals, such as insects and other invertebrates. We have learned that insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts (head, thorax, and abdomen). We will be looking at different characteristics of insects and then choosing an insect to write a research report on, focusing on habitat, diet, and characteristics.  The students typically enjoy researching a bug they are interested in.


I hope everyone has a great week ahead.  Enjoy this beautiful weather.

Mr. Aasen.