Monday, May 29th: NO SCHOOL Memorial Day
Monday, June 5th: Out & About at Hagg Lake, 9:30-1:30.
Students will be exploring all of the resources that Oregon has to offer, and we’d like this day to be a celebration of our state's outdoor recreation.
Thursday, June 8: FGCS Celebration of Learning Event @ 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 16th: Our Field Day & Last Day of School is a half day
Dismissal at 12:15
Math Homework
For the upcoming week, focus on these Apply homework pages:
For 4th graders:
4th graders can work on lessons 1-11 in their NEW Module 5 workbook.
For 3rd graders:
3rd graders can work on lessons 1-7 in their NEW Module 5 workbook.
Also strongly recommended: daily practice with multiplication facts for 2-10's
Check out these multiplication fact practice apps: Looking for more? Check out lessons on Khan Academy.
What's happening in the Puffin Nest:
Episode 4: Creating Informational Exhibit
As employees of our Oregon State Visitors’ Center, students learn that their next task in the visitors’ center is to research their special topics and to create an informational exhibit about tourism in their state. They will need to use their research, design skills and creativity to create their informational Visitors’ Center exhibit.
Students take on the challenge of organizing and planning their group work with a focus on collaboration, encouragement, participation, diligence and best quality work.
Out&About
This week, Level 2 was visited by guest presenters Catherine and Danielle, OMSI's Exhibit Managers! They coached students through the process of how to plan and design an exhibit that will make a big impact on visitors, and left us with some great tips for building our own visitor center.
Erin also introduced our upcoming June 5th Hagg Lake Recreation Day. Your Level 2 student may bring home a yellow waiver form - this is required if your child hopes to participate in canoeing with Adventures Without Limits that day. Please read, sign and return to class by next Wednesday, May 31st.
Contact Erin Morgan, [email protected], if you have questions or would like to volunteer with us that day!
Read Aloud
Drizzle by Kathleen VanCleve
Eleven-year-old Polly Peabody needs to make it start raining. For her entire life, it has rained at exactly one o'clock every Monday afternoon on her family's magical rhubarb farm, until one Monday, when it stops. And then Polly's brother gets sick, really sick. Polly has to figure out how everything is connected and make it rain before her beloved Aunt Edith sells the farm. She has help from the farm itself, in the form of the plants and insects, including her best friend, Harry, a chocolate-tasting rhubarb plant. They all push Polly to confront her fears. But is it enough, and more importantly - is there enough time?
Social Emotional Learning
As we begin the countdown to our last few week of school, we want to make each day count! During our morning meetings, we have been talking about how to bring positivity, kindness, diligence and care to each day. We have really been working on:
- Helpfulness
- Friendliness
- Kind and Responsible Actions
- Making amends when we make a mistake
Tower of Books Challenge
The Tower of Books is an optional at-home independent reading challenge designed to support your child's daily reading habits. We ask that all of our level 2 kiddos engage in 20 minutes of reading outside of school time each day. Our kiddos brought home their paper "Tower of Books" backgrounds and book spine labels at fall conferences.
To meet the challenge, students must write down the name and category for each book they finish on a paper book "spine" and add it to their tower. The goal is 30 books! Consider an incentive for every tenth book your child reads (like picking family dinner or movie night). We have a special V.I.P celebration and award for any students who are able to complete the challenge before the last day of school this year. Please support your child in working on their tower and in helping them to be accountable with finishing a book "cover-to-cover" by discussing the book with them when they finish.