Week of: May 19 th – May 23 rd

1. Week of: May 19th – May 23rd News to Know Rowdy Readers Information about the first Holmes School Book Swap will be going home next week. The whole idea of this event is to get rid of books that your family is no longer in need of and exchange them for new books from peers. Start looking for and collecting gently used story and chapter books for this event which will be on Thursday, June 5th. The Tribute to Excellence Ceremony is schedule for Friday, June 6th at 9:15. Just to clarify, this ceremony is considered to be the kindergarten graduation. Each child will receive a kindergarten diploma and an individual award that is significant to them. Older and younger siblings are also welcome to come to this event. As soon as you are finished with your most recent library book that your child check out from them Holmes library, please send it back to school. Ms. Maneck is starting to do her end of the year inventory and is in need of all of her books. On the last day of school we will not take hot lunch orders or milk orders. We are treating this day like a field trip since the whole school will eat together out on the field. If you would like your child to have a sack lunch from the cafeteria for that day, please place your order by Tuesday, June 3rd. • This week in our reading lessons and activities, we continued with our focus on identifying how much we have learned this school year. We read a variety of fiction and nonfiction books in which we concentrated on specific skills. For our fictional texts we focused on identifying the characters, settings and major events. For the nonfiction text we found the main idea and supporting details. In our journals this week we write opinion pieces and supported our opinions with supporting facts/details. Some of the books that we read this week to help us with all of these skills were: • Warthogs Paint • Fun Places • Ma Lien and the Magic Brush • Too Many Toys • Roots • We also added five new vocabulary words and two new sight words to our current lists. The sight words that we added were “me” and “where”. Our sight word list is now up to 42. Our vocabulary words that we added were: extraordinary, create, decorate, design and imagine. Remember, sight words should be read instantly and vocabulary words help improve oral language skills. Math Madness Important Dates This week in our math lessons and activities we worked a lot on subtraction. We used number lines and pointers as tools while listening to word problems, we used two dice and subtracted quantities, we used a cross off method and we gave written subtraction problems a try. The class did a great job with these activities. Please try using more subtraction around the house. Monday, May 26th: NO SCHOOL (Memorial Day) Tuesday, June 3rd: All library books due Tuesday, June 3rd: Sack lunch orders due for Olympic Day Friday, June 6th: Tribute to Excellence (9:15 a.m.). Friday, June 6th: End of the Year class party Tuesday, June 10th: Olympic Day/LAST DAY! Things we do at Holmes/Things to work on at home • Find details that support a topic in a nonfiction text. • Identify the author’s purpose for a book. • Subtraction within 10. • Spreading kindness. • The Golden Rule