Mrs. Morris' Class: Week of May 1st

The Monkeys had a very busy, but great week of school! In science, we have continued learning about the life cycle of plants. The students have been very excited to see the rapid growth of their pinto bean plants in our classroom. We have been observing them daily and recording our observations in our Plant Observation Book every few days. The students will be bringing their plants home Monday afternoon, so find a place in your yard or a larger pot or planter to transplant their pinto bean plant. Only a couple of the beans did not grow, so we will probably replant for those 2 students. We will finish up our study of the life cycle of plants next week and then begin learning about Patriotism and Historical Figures in social studies.

We also finished our PBL project and celebrated with our Cinco de Mayo Salsa celebration. The students had so much fun growing our jalapenos and cilantro, harvesting them and watching the teachers make salsa. The salsa was delicious! Thank you SO much to all of the parents for your support and help with this fun learning project!

In language arts, we finished our research unit of reptiles and zoo animals. We finished our individual reports and our animal posters. I filmed each of the students reading their report and I filmed the students presenting their posters. I will be creating QR codes for you to scan with your phone to watch the videos of your child. Come check out our posters in the hallway. We will also be sharing our individual reports with you at our Kinder Showcase on Tuesday, May 16th from 8:00-8:30 a.m. in our classroom. Be sure to come! We will be working on some special projects for our parents and for our mothers in language arts this next week.

In math, we have been focusing on solving word problems. We have discussed "clue" words to determine if a problem wants us to add or subtract. We talked about words such as "more", "in all", "altogether", "total" and "sum" for addition. We also talked about words such as, "less", "left", "away" and "difference" for subtraction. We will continue to practice solving word problems next week.

The week before last, the Monkeys had fun dressing up as their favorite storybook characters! Check them out!