Weekly News Feb 17-21

Important Dates and Reminders:
February 17: NO SCHOOL
February 18: Family Night 5:30 pm
February 27: PAC Field Trip- permission slips due 2/18
March 2-6 Read Across America Week Dress up days
3/2: Cat in the Hat- wear stripe or a hat
3/3: Grinch/ Green Eggs and Ham day- wear green
3/4: Wacky Wednesday
3/5: Red Fish, Blue Fish- wear red and blue
3/6: Twin/ Thing 1 and Thing 2- dress like someone else

Math: This week we will begin Unit 4.  The main concepts of this unit are finding partner numbers for 6-10 and identifying 3 dimensional shapes.  The unit also reinforces teen number composition and decomposition.  Please note that any partner work within 6-10 is expected to be done with math tools and drawings and students are by no means expected to be fluent in knowing their facts or partners to 10.  We will continue to work toward automaticity with addition and subtraction within 5.  So far we have learned these poems to help us solve +0/-0 and +1 facts!

Reading: We are having fun being avid non-fiction readers!  This week we will learn that acting out or pretending with non-fiction books can help us to better understand them.  We may even do a little acting on SeeSaw...keep your eyes peeled! This week we will also become avid readers of poetry!  We will learn how to make our reading sound smooth and will also work to show emotions in the poems we read.

Writing:I hope your child has shared with your some of the important topics they are writing about to persuade others.  Please know you may receive some books or letters regarding "problems" your child might want to persuade others to fix at home or in your neighborhood.  We are really working on using our words as a way to let people know about a problems see and ways we think it can be fixed.  This week we will work on keeping our writing stamina up by thinking of lots of causes to write about and will work on revision and spelling strategies.

Researcher's Workshop: This week our study of weather will lead us to discussing the 4 seasons.  We live in the perfect place to be able to really understand these weather differences and changes!  I am sure we will feel like WI is perfect right now, right?!  We will become data collectors and determine how many class birthdays occur in what seasons and will continue to weather watch using this chart!!