Week 35
Cologne Academy is again teaming with Relay For Life to raise funds to help fight cancer. Students who donate $3 will be allowed to wear jeans on Friday, May 20 along with their uniform top. Staff members who would like to participate can bring in $5 for a jeans day. Of course, we are more than happy to accept any other donations above that amount. Most people have been affected by cancer in some way. Relay is hoping to provide the funds to help with medical costs as well as research to help those families that cancer has touched. Cash or checks (payable to ACS) are acceptable
Here’s what our first graders are learning this week: May 9-13
Interactive Read Aloud: This week we continue our close reading unit, except this week we are focusing upon about weather. Students will be reading multiple stories about weather to find out what the author wants us to learn. We will then add all of our newly learned information to a chart so we can see all the information we learned throughout the week.
Phonics: -er words
We are in our end of the year unit on learning to spell high frequency words, long vowel team or r-controlled words, and “fun” words from the lists you made at home. Each Friday your child will have a spelling test of 6 words they have been practicing all week through various activities. This week, we will focus on
-er words.
Writing: We are continuing our “animal research” and “All About” books. Each student will have his/her own unique animal to research, and we will be learning the mechanics of writing non-fiction based on gathered information rather than personal experience. At the end of this unit, we will be making a class PowerPoint presentation to share some fun facts about our amazing animals!
Math: Over the next two weeks, students will be reviewing concepts learned throughout the entire year in preparation for our final interim coming up the week of May 23rd.
IXL: If you would like to use IXL at home, we recommend these sections for practice this week:
· Fractions (Section J)
· Money (Section O)
· Review of Addition and Subtraction (Sections B-F)
Core Knowledge: This week we continue our new history unit, Frontier Explores. In this unit students will be learning about how our nation expanded after the American Revolution. Students will be taken on a journey of westward expansion through the Louisiana Purchase and crossing the Appalachian Mountains. Important names we will learn about include Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Sacagawea. Students will also learn about the dangers these explorers encountered while discovering this new land.
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Field Day activities will take place on the city field behind the gym, southwest of the school. Parents wanting to attend can get to the field by parking at the school and taking the walking path behind the gym to the field OR by driving west on Village Parkway from the school and taking a left (south) on Naples Avenue to the park and field at the end of Naples Ave.
Tuesday, May 31 K-2: 9:15-11:00 3&4: 1:00-2:30 7&8 students will be assisting with Field Day stations. Students should wear their college t-shirts and may wear their own non-uniform shorts. |
End of the Year Trips:
June 1st Hyland Park/Chutes and Ladders
