Happy Tuesday! Head deep in glitter, glue, sand and paint, but our projects are almost finished. Hopefully, you can come by on Wednesday at 2:00 to see our completed projects. The students have had a blast creating them, and I have let them go.
I am happy all of you had a great time at the aquarium. It looks like the students had a blast! We are winding down and keeping focused these last few days.

Happy Monday! Well this is the last Monday I can say that. I can't believe the year is winding down so quickly. Thank-you for bringing project boards and boxes to school. We are beginning our display work today. This is a project to be completed at school. If your child has done some of it at home no worries, there is still plenty to add at school. We will be presenting our projects next Wednesday at 2:00 for all who would like to come and see the presentations. Only the children who would like to present will do so, while the others will have their projects set up for preview and answering any questions. The aquarium field trip is tomorrow. Please have your child wear their Commotion in the Ocean shirts with comfy bottoms. We will be leaving school at 8:45 planning on arriving in Tampa at 9:30ish. So plan on being at the aquarium at 9:30. You will have to wait before going in because your ticket is already paid for, in a check, that Mrs. Owen will deliver.
Mrs. Peck came and did her last dissection of the dogfish shark last week. The students loved seeing and learning about the lateral line, gills, caudal fin and what the shark ate.
We have put review skills for Math on line, as well as summer reading lists, supply lists for second grade and other end of the year items. They will all be posted in June. Have a great week. We will now, that we have moved our desks into All Girl and All Boy islands. Yes, I only do that for eight days.

Well, we caused quite a Commotion on Friday! It was awesome and the students were excellent. If you have not sent back your child's research sea animal graphic organizer, with the three columns of boxes, please do so immediately. We are beginning are all about books and projects.
I will be assessing all week in Math, Writing and Reading. It is very important you make a reading and review math plan with your child throughout the summer. We will have info posted on line. Please read the Splash Day letter that went home today with the Homework Calendar. We will have a great week!

Happy Monday! Well this is it "Commotion in the Ocean" on Friday May 10th at 8:30 a.m..
I will be sending home their T-shirts on Thursday, to wear to school on Friday, with jean shorts. Please join us for the performance and a reception to follow. We have studied sea turtles all last week and our focus this week is sharks. They are so excited. When checking their Math homework, please pay careful attention to the fractions. They have to be equal parts not just drawn pieces. All fractions that we are learning have to be equal parts. The numerator is how many parts you are talking about, and the denominator is how many parts there are total. The Unit 8 Checking Progress went home along with the unit 9 Family Letter today. We are in major review time. They need to understand what is being asked and what the correct response should be. We had the sea urchin dissection with Mrs. Peck on Tuesday and Jacob Nelson shared his whale baleen with us. Our last library check-out day is May 7th tomorrow. Please make sure they bring their library books to school. We will be writing our "All About" books with their researched sea animal so send back the graphic organizers when they have found more information. We will be presenting their projects at the end of the month. Have a great week. We will! See you on Friday.