Week Ending 3/15/19

It's beginning to feel a little bit more like Spring!  I know next week will be cooler, but hopefully we've turned a corner!  What is your favorite family Spring activity?  We love to hike with the dog and enjoy the fresh air.

Important information:

• Field trip Monday, March 18th.  Please be sure to send your child in with lunch in a brown bag or large Zip-Loc.  We will not be bringing our lunch boxes with us, though they can leave a snack in them and leave them in their lockers for our return.  
• Conference begin next week so please remember that this is a time for you and your child to attend.  The students have been practicing how to present their work to you to show what they've been working on.  
• Thursday is an early release day with dismissal at 12:30.
• Save the date for Friday, June 7th, at 8:45 for about an hour, for our Integrating the Arts morning and end of the year share.

3, 2, 1 things you should know about our week in room 250...

3 new math games we learned were Make a Dollar (focusing on combinations to $1.00), Capture 5 (using strategy to add or subtract tens and ones to capture squares), and Plus or Minus 9 Bingo (focusing on the +9, -9 strategy).  *Ask your child which game they enjoyed the most, why, and who they played with.

2 reading workshop read alouds we heard were Tornado and No Bones About It.  With both texts, we focused on reading with a question in our mind to give us a purpose for reading and working with questions that were answered or not answered.  We are understanding that it's ok that not questions will be answered with the text and that's ok! 

1 game we played with iPads and the Epson projector was Kahoot!  We used the game to finish up our Mexico unit.  The students have been writing their own Mexico information books on geography, food, holidays, or animals and they gave me their most interesting fact and I used that to create their questions.  This is always a hit!