Reading: This week in reading we are working through our mystery series book clubs. Your children are just reading machines as they are reading so efficiently. They love having their discussions each morning about what new clues they have discovered in their reading. As a celebration to end our books clubs, I told them that we would eat pancakes during literacy next Monday. We have been reading Nate the Great and in every book he eats a big stack of pancakes after solving his mystery. Our next unit will be our last reading unit on Biographies.
Writing: This week we finished our faith writing and our post informational writing assessment. Today the kids compared their pre unit assessment writing and their post and they were amazed at the growth they saw in their writing. It was so sweet to listen to them talk about their successes. On Monday we will start with our last writing unit on Personal Essays.
Word Work: no words next week due to Tulip Time.
Bible: This week we continued to look at how God is leading Moses and the Israelites through the wilderness. We see how God provides for his people by giving them manna and quail to eat and providing them with good water to drink. We see how God gives Moses helpers to win the battle against the Amalekites. We are beginning to study the 10 commandments and how God desires for us to live a life that is pleasing to him.
Math: We have continued to work at finding the area and perimeter of shapes. This week we focused a lot on story problems dealing with finding the area, perimeter, and side length. This is challenging math and we spent a lot of time on this! As a class we decided that we needed Friday for an extra review day so our test will now be on Monday. Several students asked for review pages to take home as well. These are not required homework but your child will earn rock stars from me if they return them.
Social Studies: We continued to be historians as we looked the legends that the Ojibway tribe would share that we passed down from generation to generation. The kids loved hearing these legends and talking about the meanings that were in them. We will begin to look at the first explorers to Michigan next week.
May 6, - No Holland Public Bus PM
May 6, 7 and 9 - Tulip Time
May 25 - No School, Memorial Day
May 25 - No School, Memorial Day
May 27 - Moving up Day for 2nd to 3rd Grade, visiting day
June 2 - SS - PR Field Day ( in the afternoon at South Side )
June 5 - 1/2 Day of School ( Last Day of School )
Important Tulip Time Announcements:
There will be no HPS busing at 11:30AM Wednesday or Thursday. HPS will be busing, however, to school both mornings, as usual. HC transportation will provide busing as usual for its students, including at 11:30 on Wednesday.
The Kinderparade is scheduled for Thursday, May 7. All 3rd & 4th grade students will march in costume and good walking shoes (no wooden shoes).
· 3rd and 4th grade students who will be staying at school for the Kinderparade will need to bring a sack lunch that day. No hot lunch will be provided.
· Parents are welcome to come to Pine Ridge at noon to help dress your child in his/her costume.
· Holland Public School Transportation will transport Pine Ridge and South Side students to the Tulip Time parade on Thursday.
· Please be prompt in picking up your child at the end of the parade route (at the Fire Station on 11th ); parent or high school age child to pick up your child, please.
For each child’s security, please wait until the children come to a stop and are moved out of the parade traffic, and be sure to notify your child’s teacher that you have your child so we can be sure that the right person picks up each student.
If Wednesday’s parade is canceled due to weather (as announced on WHTC, 1450AM), we will still dismiss at 11:30AM. If Thursday’s parade is postponed due to weather, we will still dismiss Thursday at 11:30, and all normal transportation will be provided. And we will follow the same Thursday parade day schedule on Friday, May 8.
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