Field trip tomorrow.  Students must bring a bag lunch.  They will carry their lunches and water in their back packs.  They are not to bring anything extra (no toys.)  We will leave promptly at 9:05.  Please do not be late.  All parent chaperones should be present at that time as well.   I recommend they have t shirts, gym shoes and a sweater or sweatshirt.

We need snack donations for the week.

The writing application for the week was started by some of the students already and they should continue with the writing content that they began.  Others have a writing prompt choice at the bottom of this page.  All writing is due Friday.

Sight words: above, enough, falling, happened, lived, loved, should, sorry, want, while

Vocabulary: Astronomy, Orbit, Space, Explored, Repair, float, force, future

Writing Application:

Choice 1: Sophia suggested…
Write a story in which you are the teacher.  What would your classroom be like?  How would you approach the students?  What lessons would you teach?

Choice 2: Insect life cycle.
Write a story from the point of view of a baby insect.

We have a field trip Thursday.  Please send the fee if you have not already.  I have more than enough chaperones for this trip.

This week students will work on being sure to activate the five senses in their writing.  They will practice the /oo/ in book.  They will focus on adverbs that tell how and when.  They will look at the difference between fact and opinion.

Students will continue to explore he life cycle of insects.

Students will continue to investigate place value of numbers and decimal points.

This week we will have one or two passport presentations.

Writing Application:

Choice 1: Bronagh’s Planet Idea
Choose a planet that you know something about.  Pretend you landed on a planet.  You are going to live there for a while.  What would you change about the planet?  What would you keep the same?  How would you survive?

Choice 2: Shaping the World
One morning you wake up to find that your pillow is a triangle, your bed is a cube, and your shoes are spirals.  Outside is a traffic jam of octagons.  How did your world turn into a collection of geometric shapes?  Write a story about what caused this change or what happens because of it.

Vocabulary: exact, discover, remove, growled, amazed, explained, guard, souvenirs

Sight words: buy, called, even, father, maybe, outside, tomorrow, town, water, where

PTA meets Monday evening.  Hope to see you there.

Mr. Alstadt would like you all to know “The deadline for Life Touch photo returns is Tuesday April 24th. A Life Touch representative will be here to collect all returned photos. Any photos kept will be charged accordingly.”

We begin a study about insects this week.

We will finish the unit on measurement and begin an in depth study of place value and the decimal point in math.

Sigh Words:ball, done, hear, learn, leaves, only, our, through, were, young

Vocabulary: crops, sprouting, blossomed, drooping, underneath, harmful, fortunate, promised

Writing Application:
Choice 1: Tall Tales
If you know the story of Jack and the Bean Stalk (Jack is a boy who grows a very large plant and then climbs the plant to a big adventure.) Pretend you have grown a giant plant.  Write a story about something that happens to you and your plant.

Choice2:Sports Reporter
Pretend you are the school newspaper’s sports reporter.  Write about a big game that took place at Ray School.

Folks, I have had more volunteers than I can take on the trip, so I will take the first two who volunteered (Ms. Howard and Ms Swanson.)  If I already told you to attend I am sorry.  I have no more room.  The June trip requires many chaperones and all of you are invited to attend that trip.

Thanks again for all of your support.