Happy Mother's Day!

I hope that all of the moms enjoy a wonderful Mother's Day this Sunday. I appreciate everything that you do!
We are looking forward to so many things this month. We have Camp Science next Thursday. This is a great opportunity for the 5th graders to teach the younger kids. They always do a fabulous job and I know the children are very excited.
We also have field day coming up on Thursday, May 28th. Thank you so much if you volunteered to help Ms. Zappone. I know she truly appreciates your help. She spends so much time and effort creating an awesome field day for the kids, I’m sure they’ll have a great time!
Language Arts: The children have done a fabulous job in the writers notebooks. We have been creating story mountains to help organize our writing and visually show the climax of our stories. We are also close to finishing our current read aloud book “Traders in Time”. It is most defenitly a nail biter and the kids are doing a phenomenal job connecting it to our Michigan unit in social studies.
Math: The children are doing very well on their timed tests. Every single student has passed through multiplication 12’s. Congratulations! To celebrate, we will have a banana split party. It will be the last week of school, so look for a note to be coming home about it soon!
Science: We only have 4 weeks left, but there is still so much to learn! We have just started our weather unit. We had fun checking the weather on msn.com, discussing severe weather and listening to Joe Kopecek from channel 13.
Social Studies: We continue to learn about Michigan and it’s rich history. We just finished discussing WWII and how the auto industry helped build tanks, bomber planes, and trucks. We also learned how many men left to go to the Army and women started working more here at home.
Spelling: We just finished unit 29 today and only have 3 more units to go. After we finish we review and have a little spelling bee in our room the last week of school.

Dates to Remember:

May
14th Camp Science
15th-17th Relay for Life @ NRMS.
22nd and 25th– No school. (Memorial Day)
28th Field day, don’t forget your gym shoes!

June
4th– Half day.
5th– Last day, half day!