May 8-12

May 12 Muffins with Mom

May 8   3rd & 4th Grade Concert

May 20 Color Run

May 26  Fun to be Fit

May 29  NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day

May 30 Kindergarten Concert

May 31 Kettunen Center

June 1  3/4/5 Track and Field

June 2 K/1/2 Track and Field

June 2  3rd Grade to Mackinaw Island

June 3  Bike-a-thon

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  Lyndon

Lyndon doesn’t like spiders.  His favorite color is red and he shows chickens.  He likes to eat cake.  His favorite movie is Jurassic World and favorite book is Very Hungry Caterpillar and Going on a Bear Hunt.  His goals are to play football and hockey.

READING:

Sight words:  where, look

Letters:  Long O and S blends (sl, st,  sm, etc)

Vocabulary Words: natural resources, create

Category words:  foods made from grain

Our book is Bread comes to life.  We will look in to how to use our natural resources to make new things.  Friday we will be making white bread.

WRITING:   

We are investigating informational writing.  We will investigate butterflies and write what we know about butterflies—what do the have, what can the do what are they?

SCIENCE  and SOCIAL STUDIES:

Continuing our look at life cycles—butterflies, turtles, frogs, birds, chickens, plants…the children have planted flowers for Mother’s Day gifts.  We talked about things plants need.

We are waiting our arrival of the Painted Lady caterpillars.

MATH:  We will continue to practice addition and subtraction.

Field trip notes are coming—please remember if you choose to come, we will be outside for this trip.  We will be investigating and get dirty!  We will have bug spray if it’s needed.

Here's the bread recipe we used!  Very easy!

White Bread

5 cups flour

2 pkgs. dry yeast

2 cups warm water

¼ cup Crisco oil

2 TBLSP sugar

1 TBLSP salt

In large bowl, combine 2 cups flour and yeast, add water, cooking oil, salt and sugar.  Beat at lowest speed of electric mixer for ½ minute, scrape bowl.  Beat 3 minutes on high.  Then stir in remaining 3 cups of flour, mix well.  Turn out on floured board and knead 8-10 minutes.  Place in greased bowl, cover and let rise for 1-1½ hours.  Form into loaves or rolls and let rise until double in size.

Bake 350* for 30 minutes or golden brown.  Brush top of bread with butter while hot.  Makes 2 loaves of bread.

For coffee bread or cinnamon rolls, add 3 eggs and ½ cup sugar.