I hope everyone has had a nice week. I can't believe it snowed again this week! Hopefully that will be the end of it for the season and Spring will arrive soon!
A few reminders:
* Next Tuesday, March 18, is a dismissal at 3:00 with a Wednesday schedule so we will have art.
* Next Wednesday, March 19, is a 12:30 dismissal with a Tuesday schedule and we will have physical education.
* Please remember that we are a nut free classroom due to many allergies. Please keep this in mind when sending in snacks. Thank you for your help!
* Thank you for coming in for conferences…it's so good for us to touch base and the students love to share their work!
What's happening in room 235?
* In literacy, we are working on non-fiction again. We focused on reading non-fiction, focusing on what's important to learn versus what's interesting to learn. We also worked on paraphrasing what we read to put it in our own words. Next week, we will work on summarizing. In Fundations, we've been working on -ee and -ea words. Writing this week has been great! Students are working on choosing books and writing book recommendations. Once we're all done, we'll be putting the recommendations up for all to see when choosing books for reading workshop.
* In math, we finished up units 7 and 8 on hitting target numbers with open number lines and fractions. Today we started another short unit called Ages and Timelines. We will keep using the open number lines to figure out ages of characters from the book as well as members of our own family.
* In science, we've finished up our ramps unit! They loved it! This unit is wonderful and so engaging for them. They built ramps, used friction and weights to change the measurements, used the tape measure for correct measuring, graphed our data, and wrote our predictions and results. On Wednesday, we will be "flying" to China.
Have a great weekend!
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