Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!

Wow!  What a wonderful week of celebrating reading and our love of books.  We capped off the wonderful week with Reading with the Stars today.  You will have to ask your student which stars read to us today.

Friday folders will not come home next Friday due to Spring Break.

If your student will not be here any days next week due to traveling, please let us know.

Important Upcoming Events

• March 20: Bob Shea Author Visit-Rescheduled for May 21
• Book orders are due March 19.  
• Here is the link to the order form.
• March 23-27: Spring Break (No School)
• April 16: Library Field Trip
• We are gone from school from 8:00-10:00 a.m.
• May 7: Art Field Trip
• Ms. Clark has planned a fun field trip to go see different pieces of art downtown as well as a tour of the Art and Archaeology Museum.
• May 15: Runge Field Trip
• We love for parents to attend this field trip.  If you would like to attend, please use the link below to fill out the volunteer application and the background check.  These MUST be filled out if you plan to attend the field trip.  The background check is paid for by the district, so there is no cost to you.
• https://www.cpsk12.org/volunteer 
• Please let us know if you plan to attend.  

CPS Portal

• Students are able to access different resources online through the CPS Portal.  They can access this portal through the CPS website.  They will use the CPS Staff and Student Portal.
• The student's username is 30 followed by their initials and then a number.  (example: 30ksr08).  If students are unsure, just ask them for their 30 number or what they use as their computer login.  Their password is CPS followed by their lunch number (example: CPS180085).  If they want to access Google drive, their username is their username followed by @stu.cpsk12.org and their password is the same as their password for the portal.  
• They can access the reading and math curriculum which includes games and reading activities.  They can also access ST Math as well as other as online reading options.  
• They can also access different reading and game options through the Symbaloo which is accessed by going to the RBE Website, clicking Media Center and scrolling down.  All of the pictures are live links.  
• On the Symbaloo is Epic which is online reading and our class code is Naj3036.

Learning for the Next Two Weeks

• Reading
• We will be learning about expository pieces of writing.  This unit has nonfiction pieces about different things that change the Earth's surface.  We will learn more about erosion and also about volcanoes.  We will discuss how the different text features the author includes helps us as readers.
• Writing
• After Spring Break, we will be starting our next writing piece.  Students will be writing letters to form a story.  They will be writing to a "friend" who doesn't live in Columbia and they will use the letters to teach about the two different places.  They can use a place they have visited or a place we learned about when read our Swift Walker books.  
• Math
• We will be starting Unit 8 next week.  This unit covers geometry.  There is a lot of vocabulary in this unit.  The vocabulary terms are listed below.  We will introduce some next week and some after Spring Break.  These would be good terms to practice as we are learning them.


• Vocabulary Terms: angle, apex, array, attribute, column, row, cube, equal groups, face, parallel, partition, polygon, quadrilateral, right angle, side, vertex


• Fundations
• We will continue working through Unit 11 next week and test over this unit.  This unit is over the 6 ways to make the long e sound.  These are ee, ea, ey, e-e, e and y.  We have been practicing using our monster book to find the correct spelling of the words when there are multiple spelling options.  Our trick words are whose, son, won.  The students are struggling a bit determining when to use whose and who's, so if they practice at home, please help them remember the meaning of the words.  
• We will start Unit 12 after Spring Break.  This unit covers the /oi/ sound which is made with the spelling patterns of oi and oy.  The trick words for this unit are favorite, early, their, write, and ocean.  
• Science
• We will continue learning about where water is located on Earth.  We will start to learn how water travels down hills and mountains and the current of a river.  We have different activities for the students to do to actually see how the water moves down the mountains.

Have a fabulous weekend!