February is almost over

Can't you tell by the weather......

Important Reminders:

Progress will be coming home in early March.  They will be in your child's folder.

Yesterday I sent home a letter about Read Across America.  We are celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday and dressing up all week so make sure to look for that letter. 

Reading groups are going strong.  Your child's present level will be on their progress report.  We are learning about shapes in math, both 2D and 3D shapes.  The kids love this unit.  Easy practice alert:  go on a scavenger hunt around your home, outside or the stores and have them show you different shapes.  In writing, we are ending our nonfiction books and will be spending some weeks writing how to books (like how to make lemonade).  In science, we are learning about plant and animal habitats and external features of plants, animals and humans.

At the end of March we are having an in-school field trip.  Keep a look out for a permission slip to go home in their folder.  

Remember, March 3 is an early release day at 1:20,

Enjoy the spring weather.

February Updates

So February is flying by with this beautiful spring weather.  Are there any snow days in our future?

In class, we switched from narrative writing to writing about things we know a lot about.   We made a list of all things we are experts in and we are using graphic organizers to write about them.  We are really focusing on our 5Star writing.  Ask your child to tell you how we check to make sure we have it!  We are switching to plants from animals, now, too.  We watched our mealworms change to beetles and will soon say goodbye to our new pals.  We started our geometry unit in math, starting with 2D shapes and moving to 3D shapes over the next couple of weeks.

Today was the 100th day of school.   We got some great posters in with really cool collections of 100 things.  We made a sash with 100 designs, a necklace with 100 fruit loops, an ice cream with 10 scoop of ice creams (counting by 10s to 100!) and I gave each student "100" cookies to take home.  I hope they make it.

We are planning our Valentine's Day party for Feb. 14.  If you are able to and have not yet sent in a $ donation, please do that ASAP.  I also sent home a list of student's names for your child to label their Valentine's if you choose to give some out. We will be decorating bags in school to collect all the goodies.

I would usually end a February post telling you to stay warm.  Not today, but tomorrow we're supposedly back to "normal".  We'll see....