Week before Spring Break!

Hello Parents and Families!

This week we will continue to do some new learning and review some skills from last week. We will be learning:

In Literacy/Reading we will:
Continue to read with a partner the book of the week, "The Jumping Sack." We will complete and discuss a prompted comprehension journal question on the book as well, and continue to retell and practice story comprehension.

In Math we will:
Compose and Decompose #'s 6-10 and begin our introduction to addition concepts in addition story problems by using a number line to solve them.

In Writing we will be:
Continue to work on writing 'How to' stories to teach people how to do things by following written and picture directions. At the end of the week we will finalize a 'how to' directions list and test it out by following our directions in an experiment! Our topic will be 'how to spike my hair' or 'how to make a lunch-able pizza.'

Classroom Notes:

• February 22 - March 1 - Scholastic Book Fair (open before and after school)
• Feb 25-28 -  10th Grade AIMS Testing (reading and writing) 
• February 25-28 - Galileo Testing (all grades except Kinder)
•  March 6-8 - ILP Conferences (No School)
• March 11-18  - Spring Break
• Tuesday, March 19 - classes resume

  * Don't forget to bring in your student's 'Raising a Reader' Book Bags every Friday! Your child will not be allowed to get a new bag  until the old one had been returned, or missing books/items have been returned.

* I have sent home ILP conference papers for you to sign up for times and return  to me by this Friday, March 1st. I will send home your confirmed times by Monday, March 4th.