Congratulations to Libny, Marcus, Kalob, Kimberly and Kylee! They have all met the year end goal for basic addition AND subtraction facts! We will celebrate with a pizza lunch on Tuesday.

Yearbooks will be delivered on MONDAY!! There are still just a few available and they’ll go fast. If you would like to order one, they are $12.50 cash, or check made out to Lifetouch.

Our last week will be busy!

Monday: 

• Field Day! We will be outside from 9-11:00. Wear comfortable clothing (may wish to bring a change of clothes) and SUNSCREEN!! Water bottles, hats and sunglasses are suggested.
• Financial Decision making extra recess or ice cream “purchases”.

Tuesday:

• Pizza lunch for students reaching addition and subtraction fact goals.
• PE

Wednesday:

• Summer Birthday Celebration
• Desk Cleaning – Bring an EMPTY backpack
• Music

Thursday:

• Last day of school! 
• Bring an empty backpack
• Report cards come home
• Art

Thank you so much for all of your support - we have had an amazing year! We look forward to seeing you next year at the new THUNDER VALLEY K-8!!  Have a safe and fun summer!

Thank you so much to Sheila Peck and Robert van der Hoeven for joining us on our field trip to NCAR on Tuesday.  We learned about the facility, conducted experiments about air, and enjoyed a picnic lunch before our short hike.

Thanks to Mr. Steele and our amazing PTA for another great Fun Run day last Thursday.  Our day was filled with lots of physical activity and learning about living a healthy life. Despite the rain, we had a fun day!

We will welcome volunteers from Junior Achievement on Tuesday to continue our work on financial literacy. This is a great day-long program that will further help students to understand financial decision making within a community.

The Frederick Finale is this Thursday! Please plan to join us in celebrating the closing of Frederick Elementary on Thursday evening from 5:30 - 7:30. Plan to come enjoy music, a slide show, tours and dinner provided by Lifebridge Church.

On Friday afternoon, we will be walking to the community garden, Brigit’s Bounty. We’ll be helping with planting and preparing the garden. Please be sure to return the green permission slip by Wednesday. When we return, we will attend the third trimester awards assembly.

What will we be learning this week?

With the end of our school year so quickly approaching, we are in the process of reviewing and completing final assessments in all subject areas.


Weekly Peek...

Monday: Music
Tuesday: Art, Junior Achievement
Wednesday: PE, Library, Computer
Thursday: Music, Frederick Finale
Friday: Art, Brigit’s Bounty, Awards Assembly

Upcoming Dates:
May 14th: Junior Achievement
May 16th: Closing Ceremonies for FES
May 17th: Brigit’s Bounty, 3rd Trimester Awards Assembly
May 20th: Field Day
May 22nd: Summer Birthdays Celebration
May 23rd: Last day of 2nd Grade!

Congratulations to Heaven for reaching 100 nights of reading!! She enjoyed lunch in the classroom last week!

We will participate in our 3rd annual Frederick Elementary Fun Run on Thursday. This will be a full day dedicated to thinking about and experiencing healthy choices.

What will we be learning this week?

Reading: We took our Unit 10 final assessment last week. We have begun our new unit, On the Farm. Our reading focus is Author’s Purpose and the genre is Fantasy. The vocabulary words for this theme are nourished, farming, maintain, bounty, various, and produce.

Writing: We are continuing to work on persuasive writing.

Math: We are nearing the end of our unit on double digit subtraction. After taking our final assessment, we will be focused on an introduction to multiplication as well as more work with basic fractions.

Science: We continue our study of habitats with a focus on the adaptations that plants and animals make in order to survive in their environments.

Social Studies: Through our study of personal financial literacy, students are earning “money” in order to purchase an activity. This project reinforces the concepts of needs and wants, goods and services, and abundance and scarcity as it can apply to their own lives.

Word Study/Spelling: We will take our spelling test on past tense verbs Wednesday. We will also take a pretest on words with the -ING ending.


Weekly Peek...

Monday: PE
Tuesday: NCAR Field Trip
Wednesday: Art, Spelling test, Library, Computer
Thursday: Fun Run
Friday: Music

Upcoming Dates:
May 7th: NCAR Field Trip
May 9th: Fun Run
May 16th: Closing Ceremonies for FES
May 17th: 3rd Trimester Awards Assembly
May 20th: Field Day
May 23rd: Last day of 2nd Grade!