Highlights of the Week May 6

• Today we talked about the Kentucky Derby. (Miss D.)
• The fastest horse wins a wreath of red roses.(EW)
• There are about 15 horses in the race.  (HB)
• If you win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes it is called winning the Triple Crown.  (JF and DG)
• We used Wikipedia to learn about the big horse race.  On the web site it had a graph.  Secretariat was the fasted horse so far.  His time was 1 minute and 59 seconds.  (KK and JF)
• Ladies wear fancy hats.  (CB)
• CF and KE were great co-captains.  (AK) From now on there will be co-captains because we are running out of days.
• In gym we did hurtles.  (KK)
• In gym we did javelin throwing. (DG)
• In gym we raced 4th graders. (CF)
• In music we are practicing for the "Pass It On" show.  (CH)
• We each are giving $1 to buy a special gift for Mr. Allen.  (CH)
• In art we traced lizards.  (AB)  We colored patterns and cut them out.  (AK)  We are learning about Native American artwork.  (Mrs. T)  Miss Ward was a substitute for art.  (CF)
• In Writing Workshop we started learning about poetry.  (MC)  We are writing poems in our poetry notebooks.  (KS)  We wrote Mystery Poems, Repeated Line Poems, First-Last and List Poems.  (KL and KS and MC)
• Miss Courtney finished typing our Realistic Fiction hardcover books.  (MM)
• We are illustrating our hardcover books.  (CH)
• In our chapter book, we learned how Charlotte is going to save Wilbur's life.  (AK)  Charlotte wove "Some Pig" and "Terrific" into her web.  Her next word is going to be "Radiant".  (Miss D. and CF and DG)
• It is getting warmer and warmer every day.  (KE)
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