Week Ending 3/8/19

We had our first snow day!  I hope you all got out and had a chance to play in the snow or take the time to curl up with a good book or bake some yummy treats!  While I enjoyed the snow day, I'm ready for Spring to come!

Important information:

• Be sure to send in snow pants, boots, etc for recess time.
• If you have yet to sign up for conferences with your child, please do.  If you can't come in person, we can certainly do a phone conference.  

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

3 read alouds we heard this week were Officer Buckle and Gloria, Time for Kids - Spiders, and Recess at 20 Below.  We used these to begin thinking about questioning.  This skill is so important because to be a good questioner, they must be thinking about the story the whole time they are reading so their question is relevant to where they are in the text.  

The class found it so funny in Recess 20 Below that the kids' eye lashes would freeze and become frosty! Be sure to ask your child about what it's like to have recess there in Alaska.  

2 math activities we worked on were collecting date from the 4th grade classes regarding how many teeth each child in 4th grade lost and then using that date to create a representation to share with others.  We also worked on using data from different classes to make a line plot and then switching our data with a peer.  When we switched, we had to look closely at that data and determine which class the data matched.  They were great detectives!  

1 activity we worked on the morning was Team Building Friday!  We are doing this one Friday a month to target working on the school values of cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.  The activities are fun, but they also only work when they are able to work on these values at the same time as enjoying the activities.  Today we did Body Parts, All Aboard, and Human Alphabet!  Ask your child which activity they liked the most!  

Here's a few pic of All Aboard: