Dear Families,
We need books for our Little Free Library! If you are doing any spring cleaning, please consider donating books to our little library. It was pretty empty on Thursday. Lots of kids are borrowing, they're just not in the habit of returning any yet! Just write on the book, "Deerfield Little Free Library," and you can also add a Donated by __________, if you'd like! Hopefully, when families see that, they'll remember to return them when they're finished. No need to send them to class, just tuck them into the library if you happen to drive by DF this weekend.
Also, if you happen to shop at Kroger (Grand River) this weekend, you may just be lucky enough to have your groceries packed in paper bags that were decorated by our students! The third graders are leading this month's service project, Taking Care of the Earth, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!
Some important dates to remember:
*April 14: No school/ Good Friday
*April 26th: Family Fun Night basket Donations due
Our class theme for our basket this year is Gardening! Donate your favorite gardening tool, seeds, fairy garden item etc. to be put in our Family Fun Night basket! (There are a lot of gardening items at the Dollar Store and Fairy Garden items at Home Depot).
*April 28th: Celebration of Learning during the school day in the afternoon. Please see the email sent home earlier this week for more information.
*May 5th: Family Fun Night
Reading:
This week we spent time finishing up our book clubs and creating timelines, informational presentations, and thinking routines to share our thinking about our books. We also began reading informational texts and articles about bees! The research has been incredible! Students are motivated and very excited about learning all they can about these interesting creatures.
Writing:
We started our new unit of Research in writing this week. We learned about paraphrasing text using a "key word" strategy. Students took notes from their reading and used our Symbaloo page to read informational articles. Next week, they'll start organizing their information using headings and subheadings to begin writing their informational pieces. We'll learn about text features and text structure and see how author's use them in their own writing.
Math:
We had a busy week finishing up unit 7! We continued to practice measuring and learning about line plots. Next week we will review on Monday and take the unit 7 test on Tuesday. Be sure to have your child look over the "at home review" sent home at the beginning of the unit.
Science: We are combining our reading, writing, and science to learn about bees. Our plant unit is a Project Based Learning Unit, so our entry event was based on bees! We've created hundreds of questions using a questioning technique called QFT (question, formulation technique) and now we're buzzy trying to find the answers to these questions. We're using websites, books and articles to research and learning a lot about using reputable sources to find the answers to our inquiry. We've got lots of plans to share our learning, such as writing informational texts to put in our Little Free Library, write online newsletters, newscasts, and even writing surveys to see how people feel about bees. Our bee studies will help us later in the month when we begin to study plants.
Don't forget to complete some activities with your child on our character trait of the month: Conservation.
IXL SKILLS FOR UNIT 7
IXL Skills: 1st Grade: B17, 2nd Grade: E 17, E19, G13, G15
IXL Skills: 1st Grade: N4, N11, 2nd Grade: S2, S8
IXL Skills: Second Grade: R6, R7
IXL Skills: 1st Grade: N4, N11, 2nd Grade: S2, S8
Have a great weekend!
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