Week of June 1-5

Dear families,

Almost June already!

This week we learned about the difference between butterflies and moths, metamorphosis, and we talked more about how plants make new plants, why they make so many seeds, and how those seeds get on the ground. We had a visit from mini Mystery Readers Anna and Dana from Mrs. Wilson's class, and we listened to author Helaine Becker talk about how she writes books. We sequenced The Very Hungry Caterpillar, wrote another entry in our Science Journals about how the caterpillar larvae have changed, highlighted all the popcorn words we could find on an information sheet about Metamorphosis, listened to Eric Carle read his book, reviewed beginning, middle, and ending sounds of one-syllable words, and finished our "In the Park" booklets. The children also made a Butterfly Life Cycle Wheel.

The last Snuggle books will be sent home on June 12. Please be sure to return the books you still have at home.

The very last Scholastic Order is due on Monday.

Thank you to Tessa's mom who was the Mystery Reader (thank you for bringing in a non-fiction book about insects!!), Claire and Megan's moms who helped with Pizza lunch, Christopher's mom and COle's dad who helped wit the Computer Lab, Theo who brought in a robin's egg shell, Claire who brought in a maple key (which led to a great discussion about how amazing nature is that it designed the seeds so well!), and Adam who brought in a book about butterflies.

The homework for this week is to complete the mini books BY and FROM, and to look for 3D objects at home. We'll start our unit on 3-D object this upcoming week.

Here is an excellent website for literacy that is terrific for early readers: www.uniteforliteracy.com

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.