3/19

I hope that all our families have a safe and wonderful spring break!

Math:

We have just finished up our unit on area and perimeter and will began our unit over fractions this week! If you see opportunities to discuss real life fractions with your child, please do! I love when they are able to see math outside of school! We also were able to celebrate memorizing all of our multiplication facts with an ice cream sundae party! The student did some great work to deserve this sweet treat! We will be continuing our timed tests through the month of April. If you would like to practice these at home,  feel free to email me and I can send home more copies. 

Reading:

This next week we will learn how to identify the main idea in a fiction text. We are also focusing a lot on reading comprehension to prepare for the MAP test!

Writing:

We have been working on opinion writing and discussing strategies to use to persuade an audience to agree with our opinion. We have talked about the importance of having quality reasons, and evidence to support those reasons. This week we wrapped up writing pieces to persuade someone they should only eat one type of food a week! The students were very invested in these stories and it was cool to see what they came up with!

Health:

In health this week we learned about our body's defenses against germs. We did several interesting experiments! Next week we will be learning about what we can do to keep our bodies healthy and strong!

Chicks:

Starting the week after spring break we will be getting chicks in our classroom. They will come to us as eggs and we will be able to watch as they hatch and become little chicks! This should be a great experience for all students!

Service Learning Update:

Thank you to those of you who have purchased an ad for the back of our Flash Dash t-shirts. We still have some spots for more ads, so if you are interested/ know anyone who would be interested in purchasing one, please let me know! We will be sending t-shirt order forms home after Spring Break.