Week 28

Dear Parents,

     We are in the last nine weeks of school. This last nine weeks is my favorite time to watch your children shine. They have been working hard all year and they have this! They know what to do or how to figure things out. We will continue learning and growing until the last day of school! In math we have been learning about area (square units), perimeter (units), and have been measuring with inches, feet , yards, centimeters and meters. We have had a lot of hands on experiences as we measures around the room.

    In reading and language our focus has been on poetry. We have been reading poems, inferring what they mean, visualizing with movies in our heads  and writing poems. We will be compiling a book of our poems and visualizations at the end of this unit. We are thinking like poets and find poem ideas all around us. Using our senses has made it fun and interesting for our classmates to read our poems.We have been looking for rhyme, repetition, and rhythm in the poems we read.

    In science we have been observing,recording, and comparing the physical characteristics of plants. We tried to create a visual representation of a plant and its plant parts. 

     In social studies we have been working on our map skills as well as learning about our local, state, and federal government. We are learning about our leaders, the services that are provided to us and how these services are paid for by taxes.

     

* Our campus will be closed to visitors all week due to STAAR testing.

*Yearbooks are on sale. Go to http://www.balfour.com/

*No tutoring Monday due to STAAR testing

*Tuesday is our field trip to LISDOLA: please bring a sack lunch and a disposable water bottle. Items need to be disposable as they will be throwing everything away after lunch.