Reminder for all Moms

Today at 2 oclock, our class will be performing our yoga dance that we have practiced with Morah Michelle for the Moms!

Dear Parents,

I'm sure you were all as proud as I was of our kids today. Its hard to believe that they will all be going into 4th Grade next year!

Thank you so much for the very generous and kind gift you gave me. It was a real privilege to teach your kids and to have such supportive parents to work with!

Have a good shabbos and thanks again,

Morah Rivki

Country Report

Thank You to all the parents who helped with preparing the reports!

We all learned some new information about life in these countries!

Trip to New York Hall of Science

Our Graduation and Recital

Dear Parents,

Our class is really looking forward to our graduation! We are all busy getting ready for the recital.

Before the recital begins all the parents will visit the classroom where student awards will be given.

In our classroom we have been reflecting about the past year and thinking to ourselves about all the ways that we have grown, matured and developed. When we take the time to reflect it is amazing for us to see how much we have changed and how much we have learned.

We each found a quiet corner in the classroom and jotted down 'then' and 'now' about many different areas! For example: How I treat my friends; How I do my homework - 'then' and 'now'. We really enjoyed remembering how we were 'then' at the beginning of the year and thinking about how we have changed 'now'.

I'm sure that as parents you have also seen growth in your child since the first day of school!

We would like to ask every parent to come up to speak with their child and share reflections of their child's growth over the year.Each child will hear from their parent how they have grown up over the year and improved and matured in so many ways! They will feel proud in front of their class! We are sure this will be very meaningful for our students.

Please confirm with me that you have received this message and that you are happy to speak to our class!

Thanks so much!

Morah Rivki

Graduation invites

Dear Parents:

In preparation for the upcoming commencement week, each student will receive 2 invitations to send out to family and family friends (i.e. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, extended family, family friends or neighbors) Being that the invitations will be mailed from the school, we request that you provide the addresses of the 2 people/ families that you and your child would like to invite to their class graduation or recital.

Please fill out the information on the form in your child's homework folder or you can email me the information (rivkiangy@gmail.com). We will be sending out the invitations tomorrow!

Thanks,

Morah Rivki

Invitation 1 will be sent to:

Name:__________________________________________________________________________________

Street address:_________________________________________________________ Apt. #_____________

City:_______________________________________________ State:____________ Zip code:____________

Invitation 2 will be sent to:

Name:__________________________________________________________________________________

Street address:_________________________________________________________ Apt. #_____________

City:_______________________________________________ State:____________ Zip code:____________

Water Bottle

Just a reminder to please remind your daughter to refill her bottle of water everyday for school.

It's important for us to drink at all times during the day, especially during the summer weeks. I am happy for everyone to drink at any time during lesson from a bottle. As a general rule we only use the class bottle to pour ourselves drinks during snack/recess/ lunch time. During lesson time there can be accidents - spilt water over our work and it can be too distracting. So individual bottles are more practical.

Thanks so much,
Morah Rivki

Our Writing - Almost Published!

We have spent several weeks on our drafts, implementing the writing techniques we have learnt from the authors we have studied!

• We learnt about leads - writers decide on a gradual beginning of their writing or a lead directly into the action.




• We learnt about structure - writers decide on the structure of their writing so that it is accessible and easily understood by the reader. We practiced 'repetitive word structure', like in "Water Dance".




• We learnt about 'voice' and how writers decide on what kind of feeling they want to give over to the reader and how their personality is going to come through in their writing.
  

Once most of us had completed our drafts we went on to revising. We discussed that most writers agree that 80% of their work going in to revising and making their writing better.

• One strategy that writers use to revise is to change the verbs that they use into more 'vivid verbs' to make their writing more powerful and interesting.
  

We are now up to editing our work. We will be reading over our pieces to check that the punctuation we have used gives power to our words!

We hope to publish soon so that we can share some of our published pieces by the recital!

End of Year Trip - New York Hall of Science

The trip will take place on June 14th - 9:30 - 1:30. We will be travelling by school bus.

In addition to visiting the hands-on, exciting exhibits, we will also be having time in the science playground!

Our Next Math Unit - 10

In this unit we are reviewing measures of length , weight and capacity. This unit we will be doing a lot of hands-on activities, because everything that involves measures begins with the use of measuring tools.

We will be extending previous work with the median and mode of a set of data and introducing the 'grown-up' method for calculating the mean. We will also get experience with plotting points on a coordinate grid.