January
22, 2016
Dear Families,
What
a great and super fast week together with the
kids! Our days have been filled up
with many varied and rich activities.
Our persuasive writing unit is on a fast track at this point. Thank you to the much needed (and
appreciated!) parent help for typing student drafts. Many will be close to finishing with just a bit of
fine-tuning at this point. Our
next writing unit is Information Writing. Students will share their knowledge and
expertise on a self-selected topic.
Stay tuned!
In
Math, Unit 5 has us exploring fractions… we
have been using color-coded fractional parts to help understand basic concepts
and extend and push our thinking.
This will continue next week.
Our
biography unit
has picked up momentum as well.
Kids are finishing their in class biography books and will be doing some
on-line research and picture searching of their famous person as well. You’ll
get a first hand glimpse of the biography posters each student is working on
next week.
Also
yesterday we finished our read aloud book, Hoot. Ask your kiddo what they thought of
it. In the end… good prevailed
over bad and we learned that just one person, even a kid, can make a difference
in this world. A good message for
all of us to remember.
Book
Orders are coming home today. If you are interested in ordering, one check made out to
Scholastic is preferred. If you
could hand orders in by Monday or Tuesday that would be great.
Lastly, a big shout out to our School Board
presenters at Tuesday night’s meeting.
They did a super fabulous public speaking job. Woohoo…!
Thanks
for all the home support each day.
Enjoy
the weekend!