Lucky Charms, Crayons, and MAP Testing....OH MY!

We started MAP testing in math today. Please make sure your student is getting a good nights sleep and a healthy breakfast. Hopefully, this crazy weather won't wake them up at night anymore!  We are also going to be testing out of our TPRI booklet on reading fluency and comprehension. Start paying attention to the binders. Sign-up's for our last conference will be coming soon.  

                                      We just finished our graphing unit in math. The students have learned about drawing conclusions from the data in surveys. To wrap up the unit, the students had to graph the marshmallows found in Lucky Charms. Note to self: picking the marshmallows out of the box takes forever. Every student can now read and create picture, tally, and bar graphs. I think they finished their work in record timing so they could eat the Lucky Charms. It was hard for me to hold back on eating them all by myself.

Our next unit will be on financial literacy. Next Friday, on May 6th, our students will be going to the "Movie Theatre" a.k.a. the Learning Commons to watch a movie. They have been earning income from different tasks that they do throughout the day. The students have created a budget of how much it would cost the go to the movie theatre and get the concession snacks that they prefer. Some students only need to earn $9, while others need $20! (I wish that was the case when I go to Studio Movie Grill.) If any parents would like to volunteer, please let me know. We need help at the front door with the tickets and concession stands. The concession stand will consist of: 

• Goldfish
• Small bags of popcorn
• Capri Sun
• Small snack bags of M&Ms
• Small bottles of Water
• Animal Crackers.

Any donations of these will be grateful! We will be watching Inside Out at 12:30.

Last, thank you to Miss Stanford for finding such an engaging activity for writing letters! I read the story, The Day the Crayons Quit, to the class. It teaches the students about characteristics, feelings, and personification while modeling what letters look like. We learned about different types of greetings, closings, and where the punctuation marks go in a letter. I explained to my students why letters are important, such as helping a person get a job from an employer. 
I modeled to the class how my PINK MARKER would write a letter. The students got a kick out of how the pink marker has a crush on the blue marker and wants me to draw them together on lollipops and cotton candy. When it was their turn, the kids were able to write in crayon for the first time- and only time- in Mrs. Adams' class! I read the voice in each crayon that wrote a letter to their student. Here are a few examples from Mace, Jacob and Ryen.