Ready to perform!

Performing Puss In Boots

Bring out the costumes and let the plays begin! The kids have been practicing several Fairy Tale plays this week, and two groups performed theirs. Our classmate audience is always so attentive, and the children performing are practicing fluency and expression to bring the stories to life!

Little Red Cap Reader's Theater

Practicing for our play

The next few plays will be performed next week. Speaking of dressing up, we have been 'riding' horses and a unicorn to get letters written by fairy tale characters. It is always fun to guess which character wrote the letter and to ride by imaginary dragons and ogres!

Off for the mystery letter

No ogre can stop us!

We ride through any peril

Fairy tale letters await!

Here are a few friends reading fairy tale stories together:

Exciting adventures!

Beautiful illustrations!

 Best of all, we decorated out tissue box castles this week, and you would never know they were once a lowly tissue box! Adding the battlements, drawbridge, windows, and moat made them something to be very proud of!

Hard at work decorating

Transforming our boxes!

Adding the final touches!

Tada!

Wow- amazing!

Love it!

Look at our castles!

 In science we have continued learning about how the sun, our rotation, and our orbit around the sun affects day and night, and seasons. We identified changes in weather, animal behavior, and plants within each new season, and saw how this pattern of seasons is determined by the earth's orbit on its axis around the sun. Here are posters we made with each season represented.

What's your favorite season?

Winter, spring, summer, fall

 Next week we will move on to learning 
about a close neighbor in space- our moon!
We have many texts about the moon and about the solar system
and have set them up in a corner of our room. We have also 
made mini astronauts with photos of each child as a decoration
when we have the celebration of Learning in June.

All ready to decorate with!

Our Earth and Space area

 Thank you for returning the Long Distance Packets - everyone did such a great job. Keep checking out the night sky for glimpses of the moon, since we will be learning about the phases of the moon next. A few kids, and myself as well, saw the moon in daylight around supper time, so it doesn't always mean a late night viewing!

Our poems in writing have been so much fun. We have tried out rhyming poems, poems based on a favorite color, simile poems, and poems that give clues to a topic. This collection will be at the Celebration of Learning to view.

Fairy tales and folktales we read this week included The Ugly Duckling, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Tom Thumb, and The Three Little Pigs. 
We read The Trues Story of the Three Little Pigs as a humorous look at the same story but told from the point of view of the wolf. A fun compare and contrast activity.

Our homework packets have come to an end, but I will be sending home the sight word spelling assessment that we will take in early June to brush up on spelling some of these tricky words. We are aiming for 90% spelled correctly. Meanwhile we will sing the songs for the words in school to help remember them.

Have a nice weekend,
Mrs. Dagley