Happy Friday!
Please make sure to fill out the form before Conferences to help guide our conversation and make sure we discuss everything you'd like to talk about your child. Here's the link again: https://forms.gle/K4pVpXc3FvE7jgRF7
We are running very low on post-its in the classroom. If you have any that you'd like to donate, that would be greatly appreciated! 😊
Here's the link to order a Yearbook! https://www.prepaysystems.com/view/ZEBslp43/new-directions-learning-community-yearbook-orders
Upcoming Events:
March 25th: Parent Teacher Conferences
March 26th: Early Dismissal for students
April 2nd: No School
April 5th: No School
We started using Prodigy during math after students finished their assigned workbook and packet tasks. If you'd like to make a parent account to check your child's progress here's the link to do so:
Reading: We are continuing to work on lifting levels! This week we've spent time discussing point of views, time, plot, setting, and how the voice in which you read (both aloud and in your head) plays a role in how you interpret the story. We've continued to draw on all that we know about fiction books and apply them to our partnership and book club conversations.
Writing: This journalism unit has been a blast! You should have received a copy of our classroom's newspaper on Monday and Thursday! It has been so exciting listening to the ideas student's are coming up with to report on. Most articles being generated revolve around making our classroom and school a better place - which is awesome!
Word Study: The Unit 9 Fundations test was given on Tuesday. You should have recieved your student's test back in their homework folder. We've begun Unit 10. This unit focuses on the double vowel syllable which we are going to call the "D syllable". The "D syllable" contains two vowels that are next to each other such as "ai" in "bait". We will be learning about other vowel teams as well. We are going to work on adding suffixes to the word endings of vowel teams and understand how sometimes when two vowels are together, they don't make a combined sound. For example the "ea" in create. This week's fundation work will becoming home earlier next week.
Math: Students took the second Quick Quiz of the unit on Tuesday and took the third Quick Quiz today. We will be finishing the unit next week! There will be a test on Friday, March 26th. A review packet will be in your child's mailbox on Monday in preparation for the test. I am continuing to pull students for small groups to support them wherever they are struggling. Please let me know if you have any questions!
Content: We've continued working through understanding the Water Cycle. We started the week off with a fun lab! I filled up a glass with water and topped it off with shaving cream. I slowly dropped in blue colored water and students observed as it fell through the shaving cream. This lab was to demonstrate precipitation. Students also worked hard to create Water Cycle wheels out of paper plates. You should have seen these come home this week! Yesterday we did a 'skit' where each student took on a role of a part of the water cycle. As a class, we performed it in a circle - it was too fun! Students took a water cycle quiz today to test their knowledge. It will be reviewed and returned to them early next week! 💧
Have a great weekend! 😎
Carly Burris
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