Monday, January 9, 2017

Weekly News January 9-13, 2017

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Please make sure you sign your child’s reading log. Work on the writing homework. We are on week 2.
Remember to read and sign your child’s writing journal tonight. Return it for Tuesday.
Flat Stanley update: I noticed that I didn’t get my letter that helps explain Flat Stanley in the envelope. Please pass along the following to the relative or friend that is receiving your child’s Flat Stanley. 
    Thank you for participating in our Flat Stanley activity. Please send us 1 or 2 pictures and tell us about where you live. Please return Flat Stanley back to us as well.  We look forward to hearing from you.

  Please return to:
   
Student’s Name
C/O  Mrs. Porter
Spring Street School
123 Spring Street
Shrewsbury, MA 
                        01545

Thanks again for your help in this activity.


Your child wrote a letter that explains it but it didn’t give the address of our school. If someone sends one back to you just have your child bring it to school. Thanks1
Language Arts: We will begin a study of fables. The students will be reading and sharing the moral of the stories. We are reviewing how to make words past tense by adding –ed. We discussed the different sounds used to make the words past tense. Students will revisit opinion writing. We will review what an opinion is and how to make a fact into an opinion and an opinion into a fact. For example, I lived in a two story house is a fact.  Two story houses are the best kind of house to live is an opinion. The students will write an opinion about the best gift they have received.
Mathematics:  We will be working on chapter 7 in math on metric measurement. Please see the Home School Letter about this chapter in your Spring Street folder. This chapter reviews addition and subtraction with regrouping along with word problems and using bar models to support our understanding of the problem.
Social Studies: We will read and discuss Martin Luther King, Jr. in our Scholastic News. We will use a map of North America to identify our countries boundaries. 

Scholastic Book Order:  There’s a Scholastic Book Order Form in the Spring Street Folder. If you would like to place an order you can do so online. Our class code is GVN48.  Please have the orders in by Tuesday, January 17th!  You can always send me in the order form and a check and I’ll place the order for you. I get points for every order to the buy books for the classroom.
Remember to sign and return your child’s reflection.
Have a great week!