What a busy week we had filled with guest readers, poetry writing, and math games!

This week we had 2 guest readers.  One was Edye Graning, our Jericho Representative.  She came in and read an inspiring book about a girl wanting to become president called Grace For President.  Later we had another guest reader, Ms. Jenny, who read the book Mel Fell.  A book about a kingfisher learning to fly. 

Students enjoyed writing poems outside while making observations of different flowers.  April and May are amazing times to notice all of the spring ephemerals, plants that begin to pop up early and tend to have a short blooming period.  Students came up with beautiful poems about trees and trilliums and made observational drawings of dandelions. 

In Math we have been talking about adding a number to 10, ultimately these are the foundational skills for understanding place value.  Many students are recognizing the patterns and tricks to solving these equations. 

Notes:  

On Friday, May 31st we will be honoring our UCS volunteers at our Volunteer Appreciation Assembly.  Our volunteers have helped in so many ways this year:

• Welcome back picnic
• Chaperoning field trips
• Helping in classrooms
• Serving on PTO
• Helping with the garden/planting our new tree
• Snow motion ski program
• Coaching GOTR

Volunteers, please join us at 8:00am on the 31st as we honor and thank you for the time you have given to our school community this year!!