MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
** Newly added dates are marked with ** for those who follow and mark their calendars every week.
Friday, March 30: NO SCHOOL - Good Friday
**Monday, April 16-Friday, April 20: NO SCHOOL - Spring Vacation
Thursday, 6/7: Children's Museum field trip
ASK ME ABOUTS:
Ask me about...
- character change. When reading at home, talk about character traits and evidence of these traits. Look for ways that characters change and what causes them to change.
- my non-fiction book progress.
- my Mexico book progress.
- the partial sums algorithm...We made up songs and actions to our songs to remember to:
- Add the tens.
- Add the ones.
- Add the partial sums together.
LOOKING FORWARD:
Looking forward, we will:- discuss lessons learned through reading fiction text.
- Finish unit 10 in fundations, focusing on the vowel teams ai and ay and move into unit 11, focusing on the long e sound and vowel teams ee, ea and ey.
- fly to China and begin learning about China.
- write one last non-fiction books to demonstrate all that we have learned about writing non -fiction in this unit.
- work on further addition and subtraction strategies and solving number stories
Enjoy the weekend!