Cino de Mayo

A special thanks to all the parent helpers! The kids had a great day.

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Math Time This Week

The Queen of Ten came for a visit this week!! She forgot her wand so she had students make her one. Her wand has two colors and equals ten. Students helped make cube wands using red and green cubes. We had 9 greens and 1 red. Ask your child some of the other combinations we came up with. Next week we will be having an Alphabet Countdown!! Starting on Tuesday we will celebrating the last 26 days of school. A sheet will be sent  home on Monday.  Tuesday we will start with the letter A so in class we plan to make an Awesome Art project!

Students were making cubes sticks like the Queen of Ten at choice time.

Measuring our bodies

Working with a partner we worked on Inventory Bags. Students had to figure how many items in their bag and record how many.

counting together

Whole Body Listening

In our classroom's most recent Open Circle Mr. Voss joined us to talk about Whole Body Listening again and introduce a new check-in chart to help kids focus on some of the important points of being in a group: choosing a good spot (where you won't get distracted); using Whole Body Listening (paying attention and staying still); and, raising hands (instead of speaking out of turn).

Habitats

We started our Science unit on habitats. This week we looked around the room finding things that are living and nonliving. We made a circle map of what it means to be living. Working with a partner we looked at habitat books and labeled pictures with Post Its.

labeling pictures with an L for living and a N for nonliving

We have been adding plants to our classroom habitat. We started with water and gravel.

We added Elodea and Duckweed.

Guess Who Books

We read many Guess Who Books And made our own version. We started these books before April vacation. Some students worked with partners. We recorded our stories on a Voice Thread. Special thanks to Mrs. Bell who shared this lesson with Mrs. Clancy!

Animal Movement

Curious Creatures!!

Can anyone say fun??? Curious Creatures came to our classroom today!! We learned so many different things about the animals/creatures. The presentation was AWESOME!!

Discovery Museum

A special thanks to all of the parent helpers today!! It was a great trip.

The Queen Of Ten

The Queen of Ten came for a visit last week!! She taught KC how to play the math game Tens Go Fish! We look forward to playing this game after vacation week!

Making Predictions

We made predictions while reading the story Buster by Denise Fleming.

cat

McDonald's french fires and burger and a toy

flower

cat

cat

Worms

School Assembly

The new Bates flag was presented at the all school assembly two students from Bates created the design.  The stars on the flag represent each classroom at Bates school. On the Friday assembly, Sophie's brother sang and danced to the song Dynamite! He did a fantastic job!

 

 

The mini-marathon raised over 9,000 dollars!!The money benefits the METCO program.

Getting ready to sing and dance in front of the whole school!!

KC dancing to Dynamite.

Opening Day at Fenway Park!!