OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: May 11-15, 2026
Theme (science/social studies/literacy: This week we are exploring animal habitats through books and videos, figures and puzzles...small groups will pick an animal and its habitat to explore! Students are also finishing up their community buildings made from milk cartons.
Writing: We will engage in reflecting on memories from the year, and write about it! We will also put the final touches on opinion paragraphs and do an informative paragraph plan about an animal.
Language: Suffixes, adverbs, pronouns
Phonics:
Bears: long VCC patterns (-ild, -old, -ind, -olt, -ost)
Eagles: "ew" "ui" "ue" make the long "u" sound
Heart/High Frequency Words: (Heart words don’t always follow the rules and we often have to remember their spellings “by heart”. HF words appear most often in texts)
Bears:: people, pretty, nothing, other, another, mother, brother
work, word, world, today, very, away, day, may, play, say, way very,
Eagles/Seals: small, something, sometimes, song, start, state, stop, story, talk, ten, those, thought, today, together, took, tree, try, under, until, walk, warm, while, white, without, young
(Both grades are exposed to and practice both sets of words)
Math:
2nd: This week we will work on basic multiplication strategies, measuring length, and comparing and ordering fractions/2D and 3D shapes.
3rd: The students are working on division and remainders (vocabulary includes: dividend, divisor, quotient). They will use fact families to see how multiplication and division are related. In centers they will work with activities including measuring length, equivalent fractions and shapes.
Special Activities Last Week: We enjoyed picking new names on Monday, wearing pajamas, bringing special stuffies to school and having 2 reading relatives on Friday! What fun! Whale watching was a blast! We saw orcas and humpbacks! Thank you all for coming out to our music concert!
This Week: This week we will have several special days! M-Silly socks, T-I will bring a small treat for the class, W-U, we will turn our schedule upside down, Th-V,-very special certificates will be handed out to students, and F-W- I will make waffles for snack-anyone want to send a jar of syrup for dipping? Tuesday morning we have a field trip to City Hall to end our community governement unit! PLEASE sign and return the one sent home on Friday or print one under "links". ASAP. Wednesday we will have a hike with Discovery Southeast in the morning! Friday we will have our last all school centers! Please consider signing up to help out! Friday night our school will have our last movie night-The Wild Robot-to celebrate reading the book as a whole school!
Announcements:
Marmot of the Week: Cai
Birthdays: May (1st) Reagan (20th), Colette and Kal (21st)
-Early Release Mondays at 2:30
-Wild Robot Movie Night- May 15, Art show at 5 p.m. before the movie!
-Discovery Southeast Hike-Wednesday, May 14
-All-School Beach Day-Monday, May 18...PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION
-Moving On Ceremony-Tuesday, May 19...PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION
-Last Day of School-Wednesday, May 20, -Celebrate summer birthdays at school-these students will bring a snack to share!
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