February 26, 2019

February News

Your child has been working on a math enrichment project throughout the month of February. Students have used multiplication, division, graphing and "business" thinking to design their own Hot Cocoa Bar business.

Now it's time for them to put their hard work into practice. Our class will be setting up their very own Hot Cocoa Bar for their classmates. They will be in charge of making their signs, advertising, serving customers and counting change. Please look for a Sign Up Genius to sign up to help stock our Hot Cocoa Bar with supplies.

Events

3/6 Hot Cocoa Bar

3/7 Rocks and Minerals Assessment

3/8 Vocabulary Quarter Assessment

3/20 End of third quarter

3/21-3/22-No School-Records Day/Teacher Inservice Day

3/25 One School One Book begins.

Reminders

This time of year can be tough for students to keep their focus and continue to persevere. AS a class we have reviewed what we would like to see, hear, and do more of in the classroom as well as the feelings we would like to feel more of when we are at school. We have also discussed what we need to see, hear, and do less of to avoid uncomfortable feelings. Please take a moment to review these with your child and encourage them to continue to do their best and persevere. 

Math

Our current math unit is all about Fractions. Students have learned about fractions of a whole and fractions of a set. We have practiced fractions on a number line and will be moving onto equivalent fractions.

Social Studies/Science

This week we will be wrapping up our study of Rocks and Minerals. Our next unit will be a Social Studies unit about Government. 

Language Arts

We have been working on practicing skills such as asking and answering questions about informational text. We have also been working on using text evidence and context clues to help us determine the meaning of technical words in information text.

Beginning in March we will begin to explore biographies of people who had made an impact in our world. Each student will pick a person to study utilizing the book series Who Is/Was?

January 6, 2019

Valentine's Day

A note went home this week with information regarding the Valentine's Day party. Our party will be on Thursday, February 14 at 2:45 p.m. Students can either make their own Valentine's day box or bag or if they let me know I can provide the with materials to make a bag. Any student that wishes to bring in VAlentine's to exchange with the class needs to make sure they have one for each student in the class.

Events

February 8-Vocabulary Test

February 11-Word Study Test

February 14-Valentine's Day Party

February 15-Spelling Test

February 18-No School

February 19-Chris Van Allsburg Slideshow and Choice Board Activities due.

Reminders

Officer Mark has been coming to our class on Tuesdays for DARE.

Mrs. Clapper has been joining us on Wednesday for some Guidance Lessons.

Math

We will be finishing Unit 3: Two step word problems with 4 operations. Our next unit will be Unit 4 : Fractions.

Science

We started our Rocks and Minerals unit this week with a mineral exploration. We will be learning about the different types of rocks next.

ELA

We have been moving forward with our Chris Van Allsburg author study. In class we have been participating in mini lessons to practice skills that students are applying with their books of choice in their Book Study Slideshow. We have also begun researching Chris Van Allsburg's life in preparation to write a biography about him.