St. Patrick's Day is this Wednesday! Everyone in Room 104 gets to be Irish for a Day! Wear green to school!
Families are invited to attend an open music class on Monday, March 22nd from 9:55 to 10:25 a.m. Please remember to arrive at school early enough to find parking and sign in at the office. Mrs. Mason holds music class right in our classroom! Yes, digital and video cameras are allowed!
Yearbooks are now on sale! Please return the envelope with payment by Thursday, April 1st. They are being printed in full color - what a wonderful yearbook that will be!
We recently welcomed a new student to our team! Jiamani started on March 8th and we are excited to have her! You should have received an updated Friendship List.
Student Council is collecting Capri Sun juice pouches for a recycling program. Please squeeze out any extra juice, remove the straw, and collect the pouches in a bag. When you have a group ready to be recycled, send the bag in and we'll put it in the container in the cafeteria. Thank you!
Partners in
Reading - return weekly slips every Friday morning with library books and
Books in the Bag
- on 3/18: wear a hat from someplace in the U.S.
- on 3/25: last slips are due on Thursday this week
final day of the Partners in Reading program
**bring in a special book to read with friends for
Drop Everything And Read day
No School
for students on Friday, 3/26 - Superintendent's Conference Day
All Books in the Bags are due on Thursday, 3/25 please!
Here's what we're working on in class:
Reading & Writing -
- making and confirming predictions
- identifying different settings
- applying inflections to the ends of verbs (-s, -ed, -ing)
- using inflections to compare (-er, -est)
- contractions
- putting words in alphabetical order
- rhyming words
Spelling - long vowel a spelled -a_e
- y as the vowel sound /ee/
- long vowel i spelled -i_e
Math -
- number patterns to 100 & number order
- counting by 5's, 10's and 2's
- tens & ones
- non-standard measurement
- measuring length, height, weight
- geometry - 3-D solid shapes and 2-D plane shapes
- sorting and classifying by various attributes
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Please practice addition and subtraction facts regularly at home.
Science -
non-standard measurement
- sorting and classifying by various attributes
Social
Studies - presidents
- map skills
Reminders:
Please send in a healthy snack each morning. The children are working hard and are hungry by 9:30 am.
Check our Weekly Specials Schedule for what your child needs to bring in or wear each morning.
School Banking is every Wed. in the Computer Lab. Students should drop off their backpacks in our classroom and then go down to the Lab at 7:50 a.m. They will need to complete their morning work as soon as they return from banking. If they're not done, it will come home in their folder to finish on Wednesday night. Thank you!
