Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

Wow!  A week without snow days!  It was so nice to get back in the routine of school.  We played catch up almost all week, but I think we are pretty much caught up.  YEAH!!!

Progress reports are in your student's Friday folder.  We have enjoyed meeting with families this week and look forward to meeting with the rest of our families next week.  Don't forget to work on the banners for your student. 

Important Upcoming Events

• Special Friends and Family Day: February 24 from 1:35 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• Please let us know if your child is going home a different way on Monday.
• Book Fair: February 24-28
• We will be creating wish lists on Monday.
• February 24: 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
• February 25: 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
• February 26: 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
• February 27: 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
• February 28: 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
• Yearbook Orders due: February 27
• No School: February 28 (Parent Teacher Conferences)
• 2nd Trimester Pizza Party: March 6
• Each student will get 2 slices of pizza, a healthy side and dessert.  Students may bring in a drink if they would like.  Please no larger than 20 ounces and no glass bottles.  We will have cups for water if students choose not to bring a drink.
• Read Week: March 9-13
• If you would like to be a mystery reader, you can use the link below to sign up to read.
• https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c45aca62ca2fb6-read1

Our Learning Next Week
Reading

• We will continue our study of realistic fiction.  The story we will read next week is written as a letter from a cousin living in Mexico to a cousin living in America.  The students will have an opportunity to learn some Spanish words as we read.

Fundations

• We took the test over Unit 9 today which covers r-controlled vowels.  This test will come home next week.  We will start until 10 on Monday.  This unit covers the long a spelling patterns of -ai and -ay.
• Our trick words are America, country, thought, great and away.

Math

• We will be working on adding multiple numbers together.  Today they learned a game called Basketball addition where they added 5 2-digit numbers together to find out the basketball "score."  We were very impressed with the strategies they used.
• We will also start learning about different units of measure.  We will also discuss the importance of standard units.  We will introduce yards next week.  

Social Studies/Science

• We will be labeling the 5 main oceans on our maps on Monday.  Then we will move into how water moves and travels.  
• We will be doing an experiment in the next few weeks that shows how water travels down mountains and can freeze in the cracks of the mountain.

Have a fabulous weekend!