1.
herself
2.
nobody
3.
airplane
4.
grandfather
5.
someone
6.
rainbow
7.
anything
8.
grandmother
9.
everything
10. afternoon
11. sunshine
12. himself
13. anybody
14. something
15. without
Challenge
1.
everywhere
2.
anyone
3.
paintbrush
4.
washcloth
5.
bathroom
What will we be learning in May?
Our
theme in reading this month is “Friends to Grow
With.” In this theme, we will
observe characters growing and changing through their relationships with
others. Subsequently, we will be
discussing how real people in our lives influence us.
Additionally,
we continue to utilize independent reading time as a chance to practice
strategies good readers use.
Students are highly encouraged to read everyday over the summer for
skill maintenance.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Throughout
the school year we have learned that writing is a powerful tool. We can take fleeting and intangible
memories, insights, and images and make them concrete. When we talk, our thoughts float
away. When we write, we put our
thoughts to paper. We can come back
to them later. This month, we
continue to study the craft of authors and apply them to our own work. The children have grown tremendously as
writers, and their final pieces will be a culmination of all the skills they
have learned throughout the year.
MATH
During the month of May,
we will conclude Unit 11 with a focus on multiplication and division fact
power. We will expose the children to shortcuts to apply when multiplying,
patterns in multiplying by one and zero, and links between multiplication and
division facts. Finally, we will
move into Unit 12 where we will review and extend the main concepts covered in
second grade: time, measurement,
mental and algorithmic computation, and data representation and interpretation. We encourage you to do fact practice for
addition, subtraction, and simple multiplication with your children throughout
the summer vacation.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Americans started going West soon after
the colonies began. Thomas
Jefferson’s
Fun Computer Links
Tangram
Puzzles http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_268_g_1_t_3.html?open=activities&from=category_g_1_t_3.html
Mastermind
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_288_g_1_t_1.html?open=instructions&from=category_g_1_t_1.html
Base Ten
Blocks
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_152_g_1_t_1.html?from=category_g_1_t_1.html
National
Library of Virtual Manipulative – you can find many more interactive math
resources here
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vLibrary.html