April 20: Newsletter

IMPORTANT DATES:

April 27: Class Field Trip to Kid's Food Basket and Hudsonville Lanes

                 Wear Bauer T-shirt

                 All Kid's Food Basket Donations Are Due!!!

May 9: Jet's Pizza Night (Mention our classroom if you order!)

May 11: Early Release-Dismissal at 12:15 (Wear Bauer T-shirt)

May 18: Spirit Day-Wear your favorite sport attire

May 28: Memorial Day/No School

In honor of Autism Awareness Month-please have your child wear something blue each Friday for the month of April.

FIELD TRIP NEWS:

Kid's Food Basket Updates:

The class has set a goal to collect 50 food items to donate to Kid's Food Basket by Friday, April 27.  At this point we have 33 items!!!  Thank you for all of the donations thus far!  We will continue to accept donations through Friday.  Remember we are collecting pretzels, cheese crackers, and toasted oats cereal.  Thank you!

Field Trip Permission Slip:
If you have not turned in your child's permission slip and $3.50, please do so by next week.  If the cost of the field trip is a problem, please let me know!  

Field Trip Chaperones:
We have an abundance of volunteers to chaperone our field trip.  That is amazing!  I know your child will LOVE having you join us.  Unfortunately, due to the building size of Kid's Food Basket, we are limited to only 5 chaperones for the morning portion of our field trip.  At this point, we have 11 volunteers.  I will pick 5 names randomly out of a hat to join us at Kid's Food Basket and bowling.  The other 6 volunteers will be able to join us at the Hudsonville Lanes for the lunch and bowling.  Please look for a email coming home this weekend with more details about chaperoning.  Also, all chaperone will need to have a background check completed before Friday.  Some parents filled out the necessary paperwork at the beginning of the year.  If not, please use the link below to get the process started.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSer_wZNeR8eRz31VJKhtAl7bCGawPDLF7emUjQ5A0x2n-n4JQ/viewform

Or you can go to the Hudsonville Public Schools website.  Then scroll down to right side and you will see the Volunteer Background Check Form box.  Thanks!

All Day Chaperones: 9:00-2:00
Hudsonville Lanes Only: 11:45-2:00

READING:

This month we are reading FAIRY TALES!  Students have learned that fairy tales are a type of folktale.  Fairy tales often begin with “once upon a time…” and end with “and they lived happily ever after”.  As we read various fairy tales we will look for many story elements including: royalty, magic, love, far away lands, talking animals, good and bad characters, and the use of the number three or seven.  Next week we will work on comparing fairy tales.  We will make sure to read each fairy tale well enough to compare the characters, problems, and lessons in each story.  

WRITING:

We are back to writing small moment narratives for the last time this year!  The students are thrilled to write true, stories about their lives again.   They all have many stories to tell after spring break.   Our main focus next week will be to add sufficient detail to our stories.  We want the reader to be on the edge of their seat as they read our stories.  To do this we will make sure we include strong feelings and tell the story bit by bit.  

MATH:

This week students collected and represented data on graphs.   We also worked on interpreting the graph to answer questions about the data shown.  We explored the language of comparison problems by using the words same, more, less, and fewer.

GROWTH MINDSET:

If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!