Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a great weekend. We have a busy week this week. Friday is Bingo for Books in the evening. We hope everyone can make it for a fun evening of games and books. We also have the school book fair this week. Students will have a chance to shop on Thursday morning. We are also fundraising for the Artic Fox this week. Students have the chance to bring in $1.00 bills in the morning and to go stuff them in another room’s donation box. The room with the least amount of money in their box at the end of the week will win a prize. Any missing or late work that your students owe me is due by Friday. Please check with your student and Parent Connect to see if there is anything you would like done for the third report card.

In our classroom this week, we are working on:

Spelling: multisyllabic words that end in ‘ant’. Our words are intolerant, contestant, significant, abundant, tolerant, advantages, latitude, longitude, instinct, and species.

Math: We are continuing on our work in unit 8 which focuses on adding and subtracting mixed number fractions. These are always difficult for students so please take a minute to ask you student how they are doing with it.

Science: We are starting to look at adaptations and animal survival. We are figuring out how specific animal characteristics help aid in their survival in certain environments.

Writing: We are moving full speed ahead in our unit of poetry. We have a few more styles of poetry that we will be working on and then we will be publishing our poems. Ask your students what their favorite new type of poetry is.

Reading: Almost every student has a new book for their strategy group. We meet either daily or every other day depending on the strategy we are working on. They have reading homework every time we meet although some students finish it during our Daily 5 rotations. As a class, we are working on summarizing. Students should still be reading daily and during March, they should be filling out their reading logs for the school-wide reading tracking. We also still have time slots available for March is Reading Month so please come in a read to the class if you have time. The students love having guest readers!

Have a great week!