Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

We hope you have had a wonderful first full week of 2020!  It was so great to see the kids again and hear about what they did over break and also what they are excited about for the second half of the school year.

Friday Folders

• Math Unit 5 HomeLinks
• We are about half way through Unit 5 so we are sending home the HomeLinks.  As a reminder, these are not required.  We send them home as additional practice if you are interested in using them at home.  They can be used for Homework Bingo activities. 
• Fundations Unit 8 Family Letter
• We will be starting Unit 8 in Fundations next week.  This unit is about r-controlled syllables.  The letter explains the unit and has some optional activities if you would like to practice at home.  These also can be used for Homework Bingo activities.
• Freddy's Fundraiser Paper
• Freddy's RBE Eat Out Fundraiser is next Wednesday, January 15.  If you present the flyer, 15% of your purchase comes back to RBE. 
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Important Upcoming Events

• Tuesday, January 14: Ross students Pledge of Allegiance airs on KOMU at 6:57 a.m.
• Tuesday, January 14: PTA Meeting at 6:00 p.m. in Media Center
• Wednesday, January 15: RBE Eat Out at Freddy's
• From 11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m at the South Providence location of Freddy's
• 15% of sales come back to RBE
• It's a great excuse to not cook lunch or dinner or get a yummy ice cream treat after school.
• Thursday, January 16: Mottaz students Pledge of Allegiance airs on KOMU at 6:57 a.m.
• Monday, January 20: No School (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
• Friday, January 24: RBE Spirit Day (Decades Day)
• Wednesday, January 29: Early Dismiss at 12:10 p.m.
• If your student is going home a different way, please let us know.

Next Week's Learning
Reading

• We started our genre study over fiction this week.  The students reviewed the characteristics of a fiction story.  They have made up characters, events and settings (even though they could actually happen, but they didn't), they have a beginning, middle and end, and is either told by a character or a narrator.
• Next week, we will finish our fiction genre study.  The students will be comparing and contrasting different fiction pieces.  The students will be using text evidence to support questions about the stories also.

Writing

• This week, we wrote our personal narrative stories about a time they helped someone.  We worked hard on creating three separate events instead of writing the entire story on one page.  The students also worked on included a variety of transition words and descriptive details.
• Next week, we will edit and revise our writing and then publish it.  We are looking for a fun way to publish it with technology also.

Math

• This week, we focused on counting money and making change.  The students are doing very well with coin identification.  A fun way to practice money at home is to give them an amount of money (27 cents for example) and see how many coin combinations they could come up with to make that amount (for example 1 quarters, 2 pennies or 2 dimes and 7 pennies or 5 nickels and 2 pennies or 27 pennies).  
• We will continue working our way through Unit 5 next week.  We will be focusing on different strategies to use to solve word problems.  We teach the students a variety of strategies so they can choose the one that works best for them.

Science

• This week, we learned about why different parts of the Earth are colder or warmer than others.  We revisited an activity we did before break where students represented how the sun shines more on different parts of the Earth and then discussed how this would affect temperatures.
• We also started to discuss and learn about where water is solid or liquid on Earth.
• Be sure to ask your students why it is colder in Antarctica than it is in the Arctic.

Fundations

• This week we wrapped up Unit 7 in Fundations.  This unit was about open syllables and how they create a long vowel sound.  We also learned how y can make a long e and long i sound depending on how many syllables are in the word.
• Next week, we will start Unit 8.  This unit is about r-controlled syllables.  We will learn about /ar/ and /or/ and practice spelling words that have these spelling patterns.
• Our trick words next week are world, answer, different.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Kate and Elizabeth