Mrs. Cormack's Class Newsletter
For the Week of May 6th-10th
What We Will Be Learning About This Week
Social Studies: For the final weeks of school, we will be learning about economics! The students will learn about goods, services, producers, consumers, basic needs, and about our free enterprise system in the U.S.A. Students will have opportunities to listen to books read aloud, view films, and respond to their learning by creating a business!
Word Study: Students will have their last word sort given this week. They will speed sort and glue the week of the 20th.
Writing/Language Arts: Students will take their research from Reading Workshop and begin writing an All About Animal book about an animal of their choice. In Language Arts, we will focus on plurals: -s, -es, words that change to make plurals, and plurals of words that end in y.
Reading: After a week of showing the students how to research nonfiction animal books and how to locate specific facts, the students get to show off their learning by researching an animal of their choice independently. Students will begin by filling in a web that will contain a variety of topics on their animal. They will have the opportunity to read from two sources: one book and one website, and then properly cite those sources. After all the research, the students will compile their information into an All About Animal Research book.
End of Year Conferences and Conference Forms
Some of you have already been contacted about in-person conferences. These conferences begin the week of the 20th. If you have not been contacted about having an in-person conference with me, then we do not need to have one. If you would like to have a conference but have not been contacted about doing so, then feel free to email me and we can set one up.
For everyone: There will be two conference forms sent home. One is for you to sign and the other is for you to keep.
I will email you the day before a scheduled conference as a reminder.
Volunteer Luncheon
Homework
Dates to Remember
May 3rd: Carnival 5-8 pm (Parent volunteers are needed so see link below!!) http://volunteersignup.org/9YT33
May 3rd: last day to check out library books for the year
May 7th: Volunteer Luncheon (Click link for invitation to join us for lunch!) https://www.smore.com/edyx
May 10th: All library books due in the library
May 16th: Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night
May 25th: Jack B.'s Birthday!
May 27th: Holiday
May 26th-May 31st: Student Appreciation Week
May 31st: Class party in our room from 1:00-1:45
June Birthdays: Avery (17th) and Madhu (19th)
July Birthdays: Griffin (2nd), Ali (14th), August (15th)
Library Books and Overdue Books
The last day to RETURN books will be May 10th.
If your student is sent home with an overdue notice, PLEASE make sure that the books are found and returned next week, or send in a check to pay for the books.
Book Fair
Spotlight Stallion
Jack left before I could get a good picture of him, but here is one with Philip! Yeah Jack!
End of Year Class Party and Student Appreciate Week
For the last week of school, I will have Student Appreciate Week! Everyday that week, the student's will be treated with something special!
The Sun
Students look to see how the sun appears to change position in the sky!
Has it moved yet?
We came outside 3 times to record the Sun's position in the sky.
Longer Shadows!
We also looked at how our shadows changed depending on the time of day.
Finally!
The class with the Golden Plate Award for best cafeteria behavior from grades K-2. Its taken a while....
Homophones
Jocelyn and Griffin look up the meanings of two words that sound the same, but have different spellings and meanings.
Skip-counting to multiplication
All week we have been exploring the concept of skip counting, repeated addition, and how they relate to multiplication.
Contact Me
Email: eleanor_cormack@roundrockisd.org
Website: http://teacherweb.com/TX/PatsySommerElementary/Cormack/apt1.aspx
Location: Room C217
Phone: (512) 704-0684