February 5,
2016
Dear Families,
New Book-It reading sheets were in the homework
folder on Monday. I will accept January’s sheet until next Friday. There is
only one more month (March) in the program.
Mathematically
speaking, we began Unit 6 this week. This was our first look at clocks using
only the hour hand. Unit 5 benchmark papers will be coming home at conferences.
We
finished up with our first math journal and it came home today along with the
Friday folder. Please remember there might be some
unfinished pages for a variety of reasons such as an absence or a teacher
decision to not finish because we ran out of time. Feel free to finish as much
or as little as you want at home. The book is not to be returned to school.
In
reading, we are finishing our look at who is telling the story/point of view
and story elements – setting, characters, plot and retelling the story.
Depending on the book your child is reading, it could take the form of a
chapter book study, a narrative or a story map. Next week you will see some
samples of what your child is working on, along with the Unit 4 literacy
benchmark papers.
We are just about
finished with our informational piece about a mammal of our choosing. We should
be mostly finished with it and are eager to show our first attempt at a multi-paragraph
report.
As we finished
our Economics Unit, we moved into our next science unit on Light and Sound. It
promises to be a fun month of experiments. The Economics benchmark papers will
be in their Friday folder. 
Our Hundredth Day
celebration will be on Monday, February 8th. Our Valentine’s Day party
will be on Tuesday, February 9th. If you volunteered to help or
attend, you should have been contacted by Mrs. Johnson. If you are not sure,
please send me a note. You will find a copy of the class list on the reverse
side of the note if you want to address the valentines. We will be making our
valentine bags on Monday.
Remember
that there is no school on Wednesday, February 10th, Thursday,
February 11th and Friday, February 12th, so there won’t
be any homework or Friday Folders next week. Your student-led conference time will
be sent in a reminder email from Sign-up Genius. If you did not sign up, I
assigned you a time.
Thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely,
Susan Stark
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