Week 26

 Dear Parents,

          We finished up our three digit subtraction unit and took our assessment on Friday. The children feel very comfortable regrouping  these three  digit subtraction problems. They even wrote a paper explaining how to do one of these problems!

           In writing we are working on writing a Pourquoi Folktale. The children have chosen their topic and are busy mapping out their stories. We are going back to check that we add sensory details and show emotions through gestures.

           In social studies we have been learning about the three kinds of communities: suburban, urban, and rural. We wrote about our favorite kind of community and broke up into four groups. We will be planning a community together, bringing in recyclables from home, and possibly some toys that will help us show things we see in our community. These lovely communities will be in the hall for you to view at open house.

           In reading we continue to learn about the different folktales such as Fables, Myths, and Legends. The children are enjoying listening to as well as reading these stories. They are using graphic organizers to complete story maps.

             In science we continue to be meteorologists as we chart the weather for nine days. When we are done, we will look for patterns in the weather. We will go back and look at our temperature graph to see how many warm days/cold days there were. We will ask questions such as : How did the cloud cover affect the temperature. We continue to read, talk and write about the weather, the tools we use to observe the weather and the changes we see in the weather. We discuss how these changes affect us every day.

• Timeline projects are due. Make sure your child has written a complete sentence (starting with a capital letter and ending with a period) on the card for each year of his/her life. I can’t wait to see these wonderful keepsakes!

*On Open House night (next Thursday) we can’t wait to show your our work! There are two other special things that I want to make you aware of which will be available to you that night. There will be a parent pride wall on the bulletin board by the nurse’s office. Please stop by to write on the board something about your child. What makes you proud of your child?  How do you see him/her using the Seven Habits at home? Also, there will be ipads in our classroom and computers set up in the computer lab for you to take a parent survey about the Leader in Me program at our school. We are on our way to becoming a Lighthouse School and we need your feedback on this important survey.

* Our March focus is Habit 5. Please have your child complete the activity at the bottom of the page, make sure you, the parent, sign it and return it to school by next Wednesday. Some families are on their way to becoming Lighthouse Families!