Week ending 3/3/17

Hello families!
It's been a great week back from vacation.  The students have adjusted nicely back to the school routine and we've been working hard in so many areas!

Important information:

• Going home TODAY is field trip paperwork.  Please read over the information, sign BOTH permission forms, check if you would like to be considered for a chaperone, and send the money in, in an envelope in cash only.  We can not accept checks.  If you do not have a current CORI on file, as I've mentioned before, you can not be considered for the field trips.  One is the end of this month and the other is in June.  If your CORI is not complete now, you will not be considered for the field trip this month,  you can check yes on the form and complete the paperwork with Ms. Sheehan for June but if you're chosen and it's not completed, you will not be able to attend.  All the information is coming home today so please look at it and send back on Monday. Thank you for your support in doing this quickly!  
• Conferences begin on Tuesday.  This is a time for you and your child to meet with me to discuss how the year is going so far.  
• Thursday, March 9, is an early release day.  Please let me know if there are any changes to your child's dismissal schedule.  Thanks!

3, 2, 1 things you should know about our week...

3 skills we've been working on throughout our Friendship Unit while reading Ivy & Bean  have been making predictions based on evidence from the text, deciding how Ivy and Bean's friendship has changed over the book so far, and then using our own reading workshop just right books, deciding how the characters have changed in those books.  

*Ask your child what they've learned about the characters Ivy and Bean so far.

2 math skills we've been working on are learning how to add using the strategy of partial sums and how to add three numbers at once using a variety of strategies.  

*Ask your child to solve this problem: 74+56 = ?

1 skilled we activity we have begun in writing workshop is reading and taking notes regarding our topic for our informational Mexico books.  Students have read various Mexico books, used post it notes to mark the parts related to their topic, and have taken notes on the important information.  

*Ask your child which topic they are researching.

Have a great weekend!