Week of February 26 - March 2

Hi Families,

Whew!  That was one quick week made even shorter by an early dismissal on Monday and closure on Tuesday! Hopefully you were able to spend some extra time with your family at some point during this week. I spent our day off on Tuesday catching up on projects I have for the classroom and making some overdue wedding planning decisions!

It's hard to believe that our 3rd Quarter Portfolio Conferences could be coming up in less than a month! Please do let me know if you have any concerns or celebrations to share before then.

Reminders/Updates

• The last day to turn in the Six Flags Read to Succeed Forms is on Monday.
• Our February Family Night is coming up next week!! Are you interested in donating cookies or serving cookies? We could use some help! It will be this Tuesday, February 27th
• Click here to sign up to serve cookies at the Family Night
• Click here to sign up to donate cookies

Upcoming Events

February 27: Family Night: Music and Munchies
March 2: Dress Like Your Favorite Dr. Seuss Book Character
March 5: Culver's Night 5:00-8:00 (Ms. Feldkamp will be serving from 7-8!)
March 6: PAC Artistic Adventures field trip in the afternoon
March 8: Author's Breakfast
March 9: Early Dismissal
March 16: Wear Green
March 19: Badger Sports Wear
March 20: Portfolio Conferences
March 22: Portfolio Conferences

Curriculum Update

Math: This week we worked on solving word problems involving time. Sometimes students need to find the end time of an activity, the start time, or the elapsed time. We have been closely reading (and rereading!) the word problems and highlighting/underlining the important information to help us determine what we are trying to find. Next week we'll discuss pictographs and bar graphs, creating our own graphs and interpreting the data. We're getting close to the end of this unit! I will be sending home the review for students work on a little each night. Having students go through the problems on the review will benefit them greatly on the test! I will also email the answer key to the review when I assign it as homework :) 

Writing: This short week we've been working on providing our partner with feedback that will make their piece of writing even better. Next week, we'll continue to investigate different types of sentences: simple, compound, and complex. The goal is for students to realize that there are different types of sentences, but all sentences MUST have a subject and predicate! We also will wrap up our independent writing projects and celebrate all that students have learned in each genre. 

Word Study: We are continuing to work with different types of syllables in two or more syllable words. This week students realized that if they know how to spell each syllable in a longer word, then they can put those together to spell the whole word correctly! This is exactly the purpose of teaching syllables! This can help us both in spelling words as we writing and reading those words.

Reading: This past short-week we began talking about the deep meaning of poems. We will continue that work into this coming week. We will pay close attention to the last lines of poems. We will also look at the overall theme of poems! I have been really impressed with the deep thinking the students are doing with this work! We have been learning a lot of poetry terms! Ask your child about what alliterations are! With the end of the year coming quick, please make sure your child is reading each night. This is SO important for them to work on stamina, comprehension, fluency, and just finding that joy of reading!

Content: We will be taking a final Motion and Design test to assess all that we have learned from this unit on Monday. We didn't get a chance to take it this week, but we were able to play a review game to prepare us for the test! Next week marks the start of our Social Studies unit: the Civil Rights Movement.

Know that you can always contact me with any questions or concerns. Have a wonderful weekend!

Best,

Jenny