Friday, March 6, 2015

March 9 - 13, 2015

NEWS FOR PARENTS!

Sunday, March 8th~~~~ SPRING FORWARD ONE HOUR!

HOLIDAY FOR STUDENTS ON MONDAY, March 9th~~~Teacher Inservice
Don't forget to come pick up your COKES from the fundraiser on Monday, March 9th from 10 - 6 pm.

HOLIDAY FOR STUDENTS ON FRIDAY, MARCH 20th~~Teacher Inservice

~~~SPRING BREAK~~~ MARCH 23 - 27 :)
 
Spring Picture Day is Wednesday, March 11th.

Report Cards ~~~ Thursday, March 12th
 
Parents, please continue to send paper towels, facial tissues, and especially Germ-X.  Thank you so much!  

You will been given a one page list of "High Frequency Words" or "Fry" words to practice for the 4rd quarter.  Your child knows to keep this in his/her Apple Binder.  We are looking for words to be read correctly and fluently~~these are NOT timed.

**Your child will be working towards completing 2 or 3 FASTT MATH lessons this week.



**STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  CADEN


**READING/SPELLING:   Our story for this week is "Bad Dog, Dodger."  We will read our story then learn more about the plot and theme of a story.  Reading Test WILL be on Thursday.
Spelling words include silent consonants mb, gn, ng, and kn. Spelling Test WILL be on Friday.
 
*DICTATION SENTENCES ~~ (See Spelling page in your child's Apple Binder.)
WRITE DICTATION SENTENCES EVERY DAY.  Your practice shows when we have our test.
 
**Students must write Spelling words and read AR books at home every single night!
 


**LANGUAGE/HANDWRITING:  This week we are studying adverbs.
***Test is on Friday. 
 Handwriting counts!  Please always do your best.

 

**MATH   This quarter, students will learn about two-step word problems, using number lines to add and subtract to 100, then data, charts, and graphs.


 


**SOCIAL SCIENCE
Students are enjoying good literature that has to do with weather.  We will finish "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," "Pickles to Pittsburgh," and "Thundercake" this week.  Next lessons will be about mammals, birds, and snakes.  Students will receive information about an "Animal Project" due after Spring Break!