Important Dates & Reminders

• End of year testing will occur throughout the month of May.  Please ensure that your child is at school on time (8:50) each day!
• Thursday, May 19 from 5:30 - 7:00 - Primary Literacy Night
  • We invite you to Timber Lane’s Primary Literacy night on Thursday, May 19^th 5:30-7:00pm (Enter through Door 5).  This event is intended for Pre-K to 3rd graders, but older students are welcome too! Pizza will be served.  We hope to see you there!
• Monday, May 30 - Memorial Day, no school

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month:

During our research unit students picked a topic, generated questions about that topic, and began researching to find answers. Students picked different topics to research: states, famous people, animals, storms and other things they were interested in learning more about!

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

We will continue our research unit.  Students will create a final project or book to share everything they learned about their topic. 

We will start our final reading and writing unit: Author & Illustrator Studies.  Students will learn how to analyze a specific author or illustrator.  Then students will apply some of those techniques in their own writing
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Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

This month we looked at geometry. Students learned about the different attributes of plane and solid shapes. They also learned about symmetry and patterns.

We just started our time and money unit.  Students will learn about different ways to keep track of time using both a calendar and a clock.  Students learned to tell time to the nearest 5 minutes using both an analog and a digital clock.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

As we continue our time and money unit, students will learn to identify the four coins and count collections of coins up to a $2.00 value.  

We will begin our data and graphing unit later in the month. Students will gather data and show their information using picture graphs and bar graphs.  Students will also learn to read graphs and share the information that is shown.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month:

We finished our Forces & Matter unit.  Students learned there are different types of forces that may cause an object’s motion to change.  Students also investigated the different phases of matter. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students will begin their final science unit: Monarchs, Milkweed & Mexico.  Students will learn that plants and animals change as they grow. They will also learn that weather and seasonal changes affect plants, animals and their surroundings.  Finally, we will learn that plants produce oxygen and food.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month: 

We finished our unit on Civil Rights leaders.  We learned about the important contributions of George Washington Carver, Helen Keller, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Students also learned about developments and innovations.  We learned how communication and transportation has changed over time. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month:

We will learn why United States citizens celebrate Memorial Day, Juneteenth, and Independence Day.