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Week of May 15-19, 2017

Tuesday, May 16^th – Spirit Night at Chick-Fil-A on Dairy Ashford.  Grab dinner from Chick-Fil-A (either dine in or drive thru), turn in your receipt to the box provided at the restaurant, and RCE gets a percentage of the cost of your order.  You get an easy dinner, RCE gets some cool cash.  Everyone wins!

Friday, May 26^th - On graduation day, please dress your child in an RCE shirt and plain bottoms (jeans or shorts), and keep the girls’ hair simple (no pony tails or pig tails) so that caps go on easily.  Graduation is coming fast!  Thanks to all who have sent in money for graduation caps and tassels.  We are practicing our program and can’t wait for you to see it. 

Please return ALL library and home reader books for inventory.  We continue to do end of the year testing, as well!

It is time to order school supplies for next year.  Go to www.schooltoolbox.com  Type in Rummel Creek Elementary.  Choose your child’s grade for NEXT year!

                 

Theme: Ocean

Reading:  We continue our unit of study on the ocean.  Our shared reading and interactive read-alouds will focus on the ocean and the animals living there.

Writing:  Our writing will also center on oceans and ocean animals.  We will use our prior knowledge and new learning about ocean animals/experiences to write both fiction and non-fiction.

Word Wall Words:  PLEASE REVIEW ALL WORDS! 

red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, and, big, has, on, we, but, look, at, little, for, he, said, was, not, she, this, come, you, are, get, some, with, will, have, went, saw, so, make, up, what, that, out, down, then, do, they, of

Word Study:  We’ll revisit some old consonant blends (st, sp, sl) and add some new ones to our list.

Math: We continue to work on problem solving, addition/subtraction using a variety of methods.  We’ll also talk about the idea of doubles (1+1, 2+2), and we’ll review counting to larger numbers.

Science: Continue with Ocean

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·       Monday: Visit www.raz-kids.com  retell one of the stories.

·       Tuesday:  Make up a problem to go with this solution: 8 Starfish. Example there were 4 starfish and 4 more came along.  How many starfish are there now?

·       Wednesday:   Make a list of 10 magic e words.  Can you spell and read them?  Ex:  cake, bake, ride, hope, etc.

·       Thursday:  Write 3 facts about your favorite ocean animal we have learned about so far!

·       Friday:  Return any books to the library and/or your teacher.