May 2-6

Field Trip to the Haler Farm is on May 13th from 9:00-10:30.  Please send in your field trip forms as soon as possible.

Class Party--May 13th from 2:00-3:10.  Please contact your students' teacher or room parents if you would like to help.

RELAY FOR LIFE  Cologne Academy is again teaming with Relay for Life to raise funds to help fight cancer. We are offering a jeans day (with uniform top) for students who bring in a $3.00+ donation for Relay for Life. The jeans day will be Friday, May 20^th.  Last fall we raised a whopping $1,795; let's see if we can do even better this spring!  Students who do not participate will be expected to be in uniform bottoms.  Please make out any checks to ACS NOT CA.

LITERATURE

Presidents and Symbols-This unit explores the lives and legacies of five famous presidents and introduces students to several national symbols including the American Flag, the Statue of Liberty, the White House, and Mount Rushmore.

MATH

This week's focus: Time

During the months of April, May, June students will work on the following skills

• numbers to 100 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
• addition and subtraction
•  patterns : ABA and shrinking
• capacity
• telling time to the hour
• money: identify coins and the coin’s value, counting coins with the same value

Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.

HANDWRITING/WRITING

We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words.  We are also labeling, stretching out words, and using our vowels.  This week we are working on turning our writing and ideas into books and scrolls.  We are working on thinking about what we are going to write and planning it out across all of the pages in our story. Including details and labeling in our pictures is an important way to tell more about our story.  We are also working on neatness, finger spacing, punctuation, and making sense.

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Geography-Students will be able to locate a river, lake, and a mountain on a map and know how they are represented on a map.  They will also be able to locate and name the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the North and South Pole, and review the continents of Earth

April 18-22

Field Trip--April 29th to the Minnesota Arboretum.  We will be back in time for lunch.  Please make sure that you hand in your forms by next Wednesday.

OSA-April 29th at 2:45 in the gym.

SchoolWay Web App

SchoolWay's updated Web App is now available.  Our school has access to three apps:  Apple, Android, and Web.  With the web app, you can stay up to date even without a smart phone.  https://webapp.myschoolway.com/cologne

LITERATURE

Laura Numeroff Books

Focus: Cause and Effect

MATH

This week's focus: Capacity

During the months of April, May, June students will work on the following skills

• numbers to 100 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
• addition and subtraction
•  patterns : ABA and shrinking
• capacity
• telling time to the hour
• money: identify coins and the coin’s value, counting coins with the same value

Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.

HANDWRITING/WRITING

We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words.  We are also labeling, stretching out words, and using our vowels.  This week we are working on turning our writing and ideas into books and scrolls.  We are working on thinking about what we are going to write and planning it out across all of the pages in our story. Including details and labeling in our pictures is an important way to tell more about our story.  We are also working on neatness, finger spacing, punctuation, and making sense.

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Columbus and the Pilgrims--This unit introduces students to two important topics in the

history of the United States: the first voyage of Columbus, and the voyage of the Pilgrims some 128 years later.

Colonial Towns and Townspeople--This unit continue the students' journey as they learn more about he early history of our country.  The setting for this unit is more than 150 years later, after the colonies had been firmly established.  This unit will acquaint students with what daily life was like for the people who lived during these times, and how very different it was from students' own present-day experiences.

April 11-15

SchoolWay Web App

SchoolWay's updated Web App is now available.  Our school has access to three apps:  Apple, Android, and Web.  With the web app, you can stay up to date even without a smart phone.  https://webapp.myschoolway.com/cologne

LITERATURE

Laura Numeroff Books

Focus: Cause and Effect

MATH

This week's focus: ABA Patterns and Shrinking Patterns

During the months of April, May, June students will work on the following skills

• numbers to 100 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
• addition and subtraction
•  patterns : ABA and shrinking
• capacity
• telling time to the hour
• money: identify coins and the coin’s value, counting coins with the same value

Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.

HANDWRITING/WRITING

We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words.  We are also labeling, stretching out words, and using our vowels.  This week we are working on turning our writing and ideas into books and scrolls.  We are working on thinking about what we are going to write and planning it out across all of the pages in our story. Including details and labeling in our pictures is an important way to tell more about our story.  We are also working on neatness, finger spacing, punctuation, and making sense.

CORE KNOWLEDGE

Columbus and the Pilgrims--This unit introduces students to two important topics in the

history of the United States: the first voyage of Columbus, and the voyage of the Pilgrims some 128 years later.