Newsletter 5-17-12

The Green Meadow Gazette

May 17, 2012

Upcoming & Important Events:

·        Friday, May 18^th – Book orders due

·        Thursday, May 24^th – Up Day

·        Monday, May 28^th – Memorial Day (no school)

Classroom News:

Lindsey: On Monday, May 14, 2012, our class had an assembly. Dorinda, Kyleigh, Robbi, Rory, Skylar, Reese and I sang about being kind, safe learners. We had to sing in front of the whole school. We practiced before we left. It was fun.

Kyle: We are reading A Series of Unfortunate Events #3 (The Wide Window). It is a very good book. It is funny, too. It is funny because Count Olaf keeps following Sunny, Klaus, and Violet. Right now they found a note from Aunt Josephine who is their guardian.

Morgan: This week Ms. Little read a book about Paul Revere. The book was called And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? The book was about Paul Revere’s ride. We read it after we acted in the play.

Thomas: In Math we learned about measuring. We learned about feet, inches, and yards. There are 12 inches in a foot. There are 3 feet in a yard. We practiced measuring on the Smartboard.

Joseph: Once in cursive we learned how to write the uppercase E. It took a while to finish it but we all did. Ms. Little showed us how to do it. It’s like this: you make a little check mark, and then a curve. Then you make a loop and another curve. Then when you finish you raise your hand and Ms. Little comes and checks off your packet page. Then if you have extra time you can do a page of cursive words, names, or letters.

Kyleigh: Yesterday in Ms. Little’s class we were writing Clerihew poems in Writing Workshop. A Clerihew poem is about a famous person.  You write two lines, put a line break, and write two more lines. You need to make each set of lines of your poem rhyme.  So if you want to write a Clerihew poem, then take my advice.

Aiden: This week in Gym we played Doctor Dodgeball. How you play is you pick a doctor and when someone gets out the doctor has to tag them back in. If the doctor gets out you have to make a basket in the basketball hoop. When everyone’s out the other team wins. I like dodgeball because you get to throw balls at people.

Kate: In Music we learned a new song. We also worked on our recorders. I’m working on Beethoven’s Symphony 9. Here are the other options of songs: The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Pop Goes the Weasel, The Saints Go Marching In, and that’s it. We can work in the hallway to practice.

Dorinda: Yesterday, Morgan received a postcard from Boston. Tara, her mom’s friend, sent it to her. In the postcard it said that Tara was going to get married in Hawaii. We have already received a couple of postcards from Hawaii. We have received a postcard from everywhere in the United States.

James: Last week we had to take math MCAS. On the MCAS we compared fractions. We also compared sums. And we added and subtracted. That’s what we did on the MCAS.

Graham: This week we had a presentation about Paul Revere. Everyone had a part in the play. My part was Paul Revere Jr. Paul Revere Jr. only had one part. I learned that Paul Revere liked playing cards with his sister. He was 15 years old and he was the only boy. After the presentation we went to second recess.

David: This week we did Spelling. We got our spelling list and we wrote our words on cards. Then we chose something to do for spelling. We could practice with a partner, write our words three times on a white board, or write colorful words for rainbow words. Some of my words this week are bring and swing.

Alonso: Last week we took a reading test with Mrs. Adamson. It was pretty easy but I did not finish. I hope I get a good score. I think we all got good scores. You have to read the sentences in the test and then choose the answer that makes sense. You have to circle one bubble to finish the question. For example: Ben (saw, went, new) home. You would circle went.

Vinny: Last week we went to Library and we did Type to Learn 3. We typed things like this “FJ FFJ.” And then we got to the final challenge. In the final challenge, you keep on typing but there are more letters. You have to type without looking at the screen.

Henry: Lately in poetry we are writing Mentiras. In Spanish, Mentira means lie. We have to do at least one stanza, and a stanza is four lines. A Mentira poem is all lies and no true stuff. I wrote two Mentiras. Also, each of my mentiras are four stanzas long.

Reese: On Monday, May 14^th, we read Time for Kids. We read with a partner. It was about Earth Day. After that we worked on a paper. Most people didn’t make it to the paper. I learned that hippopotamus horns are worth a lot of money.

Brianna & Samantha: On Tuesday for Math we read a book called How Big is a Foot?  The book was about feet, human feet and measurement feet. The reason we read it was because in math we were doing measurement. In the story there is a king and a queen. It’s the queen’s birthday so the king wants to make her a bed and measures with his human feet. He didn’t get it right. Then we, as a class, had to figure out why the king’s feet weren’t accurate. The other person who measured was too small.

Rory: Last week we saw a movie called A Series of Unfortunate Events.  It was rated PG, but Ms. Little sent home a permission slip to see the movie.  The movie was really funny. My favorite character is Sunny. She is one year old and she loves biting stuff. Violet is the eldest. She is an inventor. Klaus loves to read. They get caught by a person named Count Olaf and he’s a really bad person. If you want to hear any more, you’ll have to see the movie.

Cara: We had Yoga with Samantha’s mom this week. We worked with a partner. We did a pose called the boat. It was fun but complicated, too. You had to hold your partner’s hand, put your feet together, and then lift them inside your hands.

Hannah: Lately, in Art, we have started our drawing unit. It sounds a little bit weird because we have been drawing since kindergarten. But so far in our drawing unit we have learned things like the writing posture techniques like starting by drawing the eye or eyes. We also learned the families of art, which are the dot family, the line family, the circle family, and the curved line family. It is cool to be learning a whole different kind of drawing.

Robbi: On Monday we had an assembly in the cafeteria. Some people were singing. The people that were singing were Dorinda, Reese, Rory, Kyleigh, Skylar, Lindsey, and I. Mrs. Bator read a story called Once upon a Time. I liked the book. There were some teachers who acted out the stories Mrs. Bator read from the book.

Ms. Little:  Homework assignments are going to become less frequent for the remainder of the school year. Your child will be responsible for reading 20 minutes, studying spelling, and working on their biography project each night, but will not always have a worksheet to complete. Please let me know if you have any questions.  Enjoy the weekend.