Bring in Pink March is Reading Month Slips Tomorrow!

Students examine a graduated cylinder to determine the capacity of different cups.

Milk and Cookies
On Friday afternoon I came down with a bad cold.  Because I'm still not feeling 100% I will not be at Milk and Cookies tonight.  Sorry for this change.  Mrs. Hunt and a whole host of other teachers will be there--it will definitely be a fun time!

Math Test
We are having a math test this Wednesday on customary measurement (feet, inches).  A study guide went home today and will serve as homework for Monday and Tuesday night.  I believe all of your students are well prepared for this exam.

Writing Reviews
This week, instead of a Homework Journal assignment I sent home with students a form they will use to guide them as they write their final review/opinion piece.  Students have been writing reviews of restaurants, books, movies, and video games.  Today students chose what they wanted to write about for their final piece and took home a corresponding form to help them plan for what to write.  Please help them complete this form and return it by Friday.  If you have any questions please let me know.

Student Led Conferences
Student led conferences are set for April 16th and 17th.  Please sign up for a time to come in and have your child show you their work and progress.  I created an online sign up which you can access here.

March is Reading Month
The March is Reading Month pink slips are due again tomorrow.  We are having a contest to see whether boys or girls can read more and which class can read the most!  Right now we are not doing so well only because so many of our slips came in late last week.  I know we can turn it around, send those pink slips in tomorrow please!

Curriculum Overview
Literacy - In literacy we will be reading non-fiction and seeing if we can sort out what we read to determine what information is most important.  From there we will also be working on internalizing that knowledge and summarizing it our own words.

Math - This week we are finishing up a unit on Customary Measurement (inches, feet, etc.).  An exam is on Wednesday and a study sheet went home today.

Writing - This week students will begin publishing some of their reviews of movies and restaurants.  They will also take home a sheet they will use to help them plan for their post assessment writing piece.

Science - This week we will use graduated cylinders to find the capacity or volume of different containers.  We will also began looking at the differences between mixtures and single substances.

Social Studies with Mrs. Heron - We finished unit 3 last week and will begin our new unit called “How do we work together?”  This week we will begin by reviewing wants and needs and goods and services.

Word Study with Mrs. Sepich - We wrap up our latest set of vocabulary this week with some fun games to reinforce and cement the words in the students minds.  I'm impressed with the amount of students coming up to me to either show me one of our past words they've found in a book they are reading or they tell me one they've found either at school or home.  When I ask them if they can tell what it means, they can!  At school we talk a lot about suffixes, prefixes and base words to help determine the meaning of words.   We will hear the next story from which the 5 new vocabulary words will come from as well as continue with the new sorts that were handed out last week.