Welcome back!  This week for Leader in Me we will be talking about Habit 5:  Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood.  At the end of the week ask your child,  “How do you use your ears, eyes, and heart to listen?”

Reminders:

1.  Reading log is due tomorrow.  Read 20 minutes daily.
2.  Spelling Week 21 is available on Spelling City.
3.  The Landform study guide is due this Thursday, March 1 for the test that day.
4.  The Geometric Animal is due this Wednesday, Feb. 28.  Please return the rubric along with the completed geometric animal.  🙂

Thanks for your ongoing support.

Today your child brought home a one page study guide for the  Landforms and Bodies of Water test. Your child needs to be able to identify each landform and body of water from a picture and your student needs to know all the definitions for the landforms and bodies of water listed on the study guide. Please keep the study guide in a safe place and review for March 1 test after the break. Please return signed on March 1.

The students each made a model of the landforms and bodies of water.  They were going to take it home today, but we decided to wait until tomorrow due to the rain.  The model may stay at home.

Valentine’s Day:  Thanks again to everyone for making the Valentine’s Day celebration a success.  I appreciate your support with sending things in and it was great to have family members join us.

Reminders:

1.  Read 20 minutes daily.  The current reading log is due after break on Tuesday, Feb. 27.  Please have your child list books on the back if needed.
2.  Geometric Animal is due Feb.28 after break.
3. Please return social studies study guide tomorrow if needed
4. Please return CH. 5 Math tests with parent signature tomorrow if needed
5. Spelling Week 20 is on Spelling City for tomorrow.
6. Landform and Bodies of water test on March 1.

Thanks for your ongoing support.  Tomorrow is a Popcorn Day.   Have a nice winter break with your family.

The new reading log was attached to your child’s Everyday folder today.  Due to the winter break it will be due Feb.27.

Reminders:

1.  Valentines Party 2:30-3:15 tomorrow. All parents are welcome to join us.
2. .Social Studies study guide due completed and signed on Thursday.
3. Friday, Spelling Week 20 test.  Words are on Spelling City.
4.  Geometric Animal due Feb. 28.

This week for our Leader in Me Lesson, our class will learn about listening to understand.  At the end of the week ask your child, “What does it mean to ‘seek to understand’?”

The social studies test is this Thursday, Feb. 15.  Here are some vocabulary definitions that were cut-off on the study guide and some suggestions for the essay practice question about diversity:

1.community services:  things that a community does for people living in a community

2.council: a group of people who make the laws in a community

3.court: a branch of government that interprets laws and decides the punishment for breaking laws

Question 3 study guide writing practice about diversity should give examples how people in our community are different in each category.

For example,In my community people eat different kinds of food like Italian, Arabic, etc.

In my community people celebrate different holidays like Christmas, Eid, etc.

In my community people speak different languages.  They speak English, Arab, and Spanish.

Reminders:

1.  Reading log due Tuesday
2. Valentine Party Wed. 2:30-3:15
3.  Social Studies study guide due and the test will be on Thursday
4. Friday, Spelling Week 20 test.  Words are on Spelling City
5. Geometric Animal

Thanks again in advance for the items for the party this week. and thanks for your ongoing support!

Today your child is bringing home the SS ch. 5 study guide with a booklet attached to it that your child made. The booklet will be helpful to study also.  The study guide includes  three practice writing questions.  Your child needs to practice the writing with complete sentences and ideas as they will have three essay questions on the test.  The district test will be a multiple choice test on the computer followed by the written portion of the test.  Please practice the 28 vocabulary words too. It should be completed, reviewed and studied, and returned with parent signature on Feb.15 for the test that day.

Reminders:

1.  Spelling week 19 test will be Monday, Feb. 12 due to the snow day tomorrow.
2. Read 20 minutes
3. Candy grams for Valentines Day due tomorrow
4. Geometric Animal

Thanks for your ongoing support.

Please look for your child’s SS Ch. 3 study guide tomorrow. The test will be next week.

Reminders:

1. Valentine’s Day Items :  See Feb. 5 Blog:   All set with everything! Thank you!
2. Read 20 minutes
3. Study Week 19 Spelling
4. All for Books Donations are due tomorrow if interested in donating

Thanks for your ongoing support.

Today your child brought home a new reading log.  Please continue to have your child read 20 minutes daily.

The Chapter 5 study guide is due completed and with a parent signature tomorrow.  The test will be tomorrow too.

The Valentine Party is on Valentine’s Day.  If you would like to donate items, please see the blog from Feb. 5.  The students were given a class list today of names to use when fixing Valentines.

Reminders:

1.  Book Fair
2. Valentine Grams

Thanks for your ongoing support!