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Weekly News February 13-17, 2017

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on this Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Please make sure you sign your child’s reading log. Due to the snow day Monday night’s work is optional.

Valentine’s Day: We will celebrate Valentine’s Day on Tuesday. Be sure to bring Valentines for each classmate. We have 22 students in our class. Remember to bring a special nut free snack to enjoy at the party.

Basket Raffle for the Fun Fair: Help our class build a Wide World of Sports basket to raffle at the Fun Fair. Please bring send in items for our basket. Thanks to those who have already contributed to our basket.

Sledding: We will try to go sledding this Wednesday. Please send snow pants, boots, hat, gloves (mittens) if your child wishes to play in the snow.

Language Arts/Science: We will continue to discuss character traits. We will be working on informative writing for the next several weeks. We will work on the vowel team ea/ee in our word work. We will continue to learn about weather. Our focus will still be on the clouds and recording the weather in our journal. I will share the book Snowflake Bentley. We will share traits that made him a leader. We will read Hooway for Wodney Wat. This book will be discussed at our All School Meeting on Friday. The students will think about what it means to advocate for yourself. We will be looking for examples in the book that show Rodney advocating for himself.

Mathematics: We will be reviewing Chapter 10 this week. The students are working hard to use rounding to estimate. Students will be using estimation to check work to see if the answers are reasonable.

Weekly News February 6-10, 2017

Homework: The math packet and reading log are due on this Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Please make sure you sign your child’s reading log.

Basket Raffle for the Fun Fair: Help our class build a Wide World of Sports basket to raffle at the Fun Fair. Please bring send in items for our basket. Thanks to those who have already contributed to our basket.

Language Arts/Social Studies/Science: We will continue to discuss character traits. We will be working on informative writing for the next several weeks. We will be writing a piece about the leader we have read about in our reading groups. We will work on the vowel team ea/ee in our word work. : We will become weather watchers and researchers for the next several weeks. We will begin by observing clouds. The students will learn the three basic clouds: cirrus, stratus, and cumulus by reading the book Clouds by Tomie dePaola. We will discuss how these types make other types of clouds. We will be completing a weather journal for the next few weeks as well.

Mathematics: We will learn how to round two and three digit numbers to the nearest 10. We will practice using rounding to estimate sums and differences. Using estimation students will learn the steps to see if their answers are reasonable. We will work on explaining our answers in writing.

Valentine’s Day Information: Please remember that our Valentine cards must be candy/snack free.  Thank you for your help with this. We will have our celebration on Tuesday, February 14th!  Please send a special nut free snack for your child to enjoy at our celebration.

Ways you can help at home: Watch the weather together. Describe your observations. Watch a meteorologist on TV together. Talk about the key words he or she used to tell about the weather. Read books and poems about the weather or seasons. Review numbers that make 10. Review the numbers that make a hundred. Practice solving equations that involve a missing number with your child. Go over any problems that your child may have missed on class work or homework. Talk about whether it was a careless mistake or whether they were confused. Review weekend activities with your child on Sunday night or Monday morning so your child will be ready to write in his or her journal about the weekend.

Cursive: We will continue to practice the cursive a and learn the d.

Fun Fair Basket