Week of March 8th

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you have all had a great week. 

Please make sure your child is reading 30 minutes a night Monday through Thursday unless otherwise stated on the calendar (Friday and the weekends are optional 😊). They should be bringing home their Homework Reading Log which is a bright yellow sheet. It is double sided so this sheet should last about four weeks. Thank you for signing it each night confirming that they have completed their homework. I do check this sheet every morning when students arrive.

The link to sign up for Parent Teacher Conferences will be sent out on Monday, March 8th.

Upcoming Events:

March 23rd: Parent Teacher Conferences (Stay tuned for link)
March 25th: Parent Teacher Conferences (Stay tuned for link)
March 26th: Early Dismissal for students
April 2nd: No School
April 5th: No School

Curriculum Update:

Reading: We wrapped up our Reading unit this afternoon on Interpreting Characters. We celebrated by creating bookmarks with a chosen powerful quote that we liked from one of the books we read throughout the unit. These book marks will be copied and offered to other students in the school! Here's some pictures from students working on their bookmarks today!

Writing: We finished up our Writing unit as well. I am so proud of how invested and motivated students were throughout this unit. I enjoyed watching them choose their own adventure in writing. Check out Seesaw to see the slideshow we made during our celebration to celebrate all we've accomplished this unit! We are moving on to Journalism! 

Math: We started Unit 6 this week in our math curriculum! This unit focuses on fractions. The students have jumped right in to this unit and it has been awesome to see and hear all about their previous fraction knowledge. We are currently working to understand what a fraction is alongside understanding the parts of a fraction like the numerator and denominator. Adding and subtracting like fractions seem to come easy for majority of the class. I am excited to continue through this unit with them! We played Fraction Bingo today which was so fun! Students were given a fraction addition or subtraction problem and had to find the answer on their bingo board. Here's some pictures:

Word Study: We are still cruising through Unit 9! This unit is all about r-controlled vowels. This syllable contains a single vowel that is directly followed by the letter r. The r changes the sound of the vowel. For example, in the word bark, the vowel a has neither a short nor long vowel sound - instead the sound is "controlled" by the r. There is an exception to the r-controlled syllable. If the r is followed by another r, the proceeding vowel is often short, as in the word carry. Students will also learn about the 1-1-1 spelling rule that applies to r-controlled words. When a base word is a closed or r-controlled syllable with only one consonant following one vowel, you double the final consonant on the base word if adding a vowel suffix

Your child's weeks worth of Fundations work will come home early next week. It should look like this (for 3/2/21 the words on their slip should be marked up):

Content: Last week we did a fun lab where students practiced being paleontologists. They were given a sheet of paper bones and were instructed to try and put the bones together to identify what the fossils were remains of. Here is what some groups came up with: