Brrrr! So much for hoping for an early spring.
Reading: We finished our reading unit on Dinosaurs and Fossils. We learned a lot and practiced reading strategies with expository texts. As you read with your child (which you should be doing at least once a week...) make sure you ask what the main idea of a story is. Ask your child to give you alternate titles. Identifying the main idea of a story was a focus of this unit and still proves to be difficult.
Writing: Students wrote a narrative story with a dinosaur chase as the main event. It was an opportunity for me to assess punctuation and story organization.
Math: We have been very busy working on beginning multiplication concepts. We even spent a day doing division. We will continue to practice addition and subtraction computation.
Science: At the end of next week we will begin work on a new science unit on Rocks and Minerals.
Behavior: The students have been working hard to make me "burst my buttons." They earn buttons in a jar every time they work as a team to be good listeners, hard workers and respectful friends. When the jar is full we will have a celebration. Individual students who aren't working as a team member might earn a strike. Once a student has five strikes they will miss 5 minutes of our celebration. 10 strikes is 10 minutes. 15 strikes is 15 minutes. Beyond 15 strikes a student will miss the entire celebration.
Pizza on Wednesday: Students will be eating lunch in the room next Wednesday to celebrate the New Beats dance victory AND the phenomenal, outstanding, wonderful, perfect listening during the dinosaur presentations. I will provide the pizza. Please send in a piece of fruit/bag of vegetables for your child to supplement the pizza. Kids can order milk or bring a water bottle.
