Mrs. Bradford's Peek of the Month
May 2016
Importants Dates
May 18th Track and Field Day *** Wear Tennis shoes and Bring a Waterbottle
May 18th- Last day of Library check out
May25th- All books due at Library
May 26th - Field Trip to Carpentuer Nature Center- *volunteer space available
May 30th- No school Memorial Day
June 1st Pop into Liteacy event at Site 1 6-7:30
June 9th 2:30 End of the year Variety show
Star of the Week
The kids have been asking for Show and Tell again so we will have show and tell from here on out starting May 9th. Students will sign up for days. Also if you want to come in and read, just let me know.
Theme
May 2nd -May 13- Garden/Planting
May 16-May 27- Farms
Birthdays
Math focus
Geometry
- 2D and 3D shapes
- Symmetry, equal part, and halves
Fractions
- Equal parts
- Halves
- Ordinal numbers
Time
- Telling Time to the hour
- AM/PM
- Order of the day
Shared Reading
Shared Reading Skills:
- Making Connections
- Main Idea and Sequencing Details
- Review of Reading Stratedgies
Writers Workshop
Opinion Writing
End of the year Publishing
Focus letters/Spelling
We are continuing to focus on consonant blends in May (l blends and r blends) and review of word families. Homework should be a review and your child should be able to complete it on his/her own.
Spelling
- ay- chunk
Things To Do At Home
- ·Preactice 3 D Shape
- Read & write super words
- Counting backward from 20· Identify numbers 0-31
- Identify coins – names and values
- Adding and subtracting up to 20 with objects
- Practice Telling time
* Read Daily and practice on Raz kids
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