Week of March 5 - 9

Hi Families,

Wow, it was great to see such the overwhelming support for your child and our school at our Family Night this month! Students blew my socks off with their performance of their song. If you didn't get a chance to go, or if you'd just like to see it again, I have a video of them singing their song again on Seesaw!


Check out some pictures from our Book Character dress up day!

Reminders/Updates

• This week we have some extra fun things going on: Culver's Night is this Monday, our Symphony field trip to the PAC is Tuesday afternoon, Author's Breakfast Thursday morning, and an early dismissal on Friday!
• Our Knowledge-A-Thon (KAT) will be here before we know it! If you are  interested in volunteering, please sign up by clicking the link: 2018 Knowledge-A-Thon (KAT) Day

• If you would like to volunteer, you will need to have a background check on file. If you do not have one yet, it could take 3 weeks to get approved. 

• Portfolio Conferences are coming soon! An email should be coming to you soon to sign up for conferences. The link has been from "PTCFast," so be sure to check for that as I know it can be easy to look past! 

Upcoming Events

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 8: Unit 4 Math Test
March 9: Early Dismissal (11:30)
March 16: Wear Green
March 19: Badger Sports Wear
March 20: Portfolio Conferences
March 22: Portfolio Conferences
March 28: Early Dismissal (11:30)
March 29: NO SCHOOL
March 30: NO SCHOOL

Curriculum Update

Math: This week we reviewed time and also got into our last big concept of this unit: graphs! We interpreted and created our own bar graphs and pictographs. This is fun to do with data! Some students even asked if they could create their own graphs based on students' favorite pets or colors. This was awesome! Having students see that what they learn in school is something that they can use in other parts of their lives is exactly what I want to happen! Next week, we will be reviewing for our Unit 4 test. Continue having your child work on the review a little bit each night. I also put some more practice onto Think Central if your child is interested! Let me know if you have any questions regarding the test. We will take the test on Thursday. As always, the test will look VERY similar to the review.

Writing: Our writers have been doing their best to make their piece of writing their best yet! We have been improving our writing by providing and listening to feedback from our partners and using a checklist to be sure we have all the good writing moves in our current piece of writing! Next week, we'll talk about adjectives and then publish our writing. It will be perfect timing as we will then be able to showcase our published writing during our Author's Breakfast on Thursday!

Word Study: Students have been really thinking about how to spell each syllable in their words. We learned about prefixes; understanding what each prefix means can help us understand the entire word! Our trick words for next week will be night, carry, and something. When your child is practicing writing the trick words, it is ok and actually encouraged to let them see the trick word if they do not know how to spell it. We want to make sure they're spelling the trick words correctly each time it's written, as this helps them to write it correctly in the future. 

Reading: This past week we finished up analyzing our poetry! Students did a great job reading deeply. This is a skill they should have for not only poetry, but anything they read. This coming week we will begin a new unit! This unit is TEST PREP! There was a letter that was sent home explaining it in more detail. Overall, the unit will remind students of skills they already know and teach them practical test taking tips! This is the first year of state testing for your children and this unit does a great job at making them prepared and LESS stressed! I did tell them there will be a big celebration after all the testing they are going to do. I think they were pretty excited! :) Let me know if you have any questions.

Content: We started our next Social Studies unit -- the Civil Rights Movement! We kicked this unit off by reading the book The Other Side and by getting a little background on the Civil Rights Movement. Students will be selecting a leader from that time to research deeper so that they can share that knowledge with all of us! Feel free to talk to your child about this era - we talked a lot this week but I'm sure there are some more lingering questions or comments!

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

Best,

Jenny