Yesterday, a green calendar was sent home for March is Reading Month.  Our theme this year is “Reading for Peace”.  Please take the time to look at the calendar on a daily basis and have your child do the activity listed for each day at home.  Many of the activities will be done at school as well.  Make sure your child is reading for at least 20 minutes every night and filling in the “Book-It” reading log.  This should be turned in at the end of the month.  Enjoy and keep reading!

Test scores for the Minerals and Rocks test in Science and the Unit 6 Math Test are being sent home today.

Spelling words (/ere/and /ier/patterns):  there, cashier, earlier, anywhere, sphere

Bonus words:  democracy, citizen, federal, caption, index

Earth Day t-shirts are on sale for $9.00 children/adults and $12.00 for XXL.  All order forms and money are due by Friday, March 7th.

Congratulations to Rachel for being the first student in our class to pass all of her multiplication and division 3 minute tests.  She is the first person to join the “Math Wizards Club”.

Congratulations to the entire class for earning the right to attend the February PBIS party.  Students could only have 3 color changes in the month of February in order to be invited to the party today.

Thank you to those families that turned in the Science Fair Project…Getting Started paper.  If you have not turned your child’s in yet, please do so as soon as possible.  Remember the Science Fair is May 20th.  More information will come home in the future.

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Please remember to turn in your Science Fair Project…Getting Started paper in by tomorrow, Friday, February 28th.  This way the committee can get an idea of what kinds of projects students plan on doing at home for the Science Fair on May 20, 2014.

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This Friday, February 28th is Book Bingo at 6:30 p.m.  The theme is “Pajama party”.  There will also be a bake sale.  All donations may be dropped off before school or at 6:15 p.m. before Book Bingo starts.

Spelling words (/ire/ and /ear/ patterns):  hire, earth, learn, early, dire

Bonus words:  heading, magma, igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic

Social Studies quiz tomorrow on local and state government.  Students will need to decide if the local or state government is responsible for certain laws.  We have gone over several examples together in class, and students will bring home their folders to study tonight.

Wednesday, February 26th will be our Unit 6 Math Test.  Students will bring home their Math Journals to help them study.  They may keep their Math Journals at home afterwards because we will start our second Math Journal on Thursday.  Concepts on the test will be:

-quadrangles

-line segments, rays, and lines

-parallel and intersecting

-right angles

-lines of symmetry

-identifying solid shapes

-faces, edges, and vertices of 3-D shapes

-clockwise and counterclockwise turns

-review of multiplication and division

-review of decimals

Thank you to all of the families that donated items for our Valentine’s Day party.  Also thank you to all of the students that brought in Valentine cards and/or candy to pass out to the class.  The students had a wonderful party!

Spelling words (/are/ sound):  care, stare, fare, dare, bare

Bonus Words:  timeline, chronological, informational, bolded words, table of contents

Congratulations to the class for filling the Marble Jar and earning their first party.  We will be watching a movie today and writing a summary of the movie while enjoying eating ice cream sundaes!

Thank you to the parents that signed up to bring in treats for our Valentine’s Day party this coming Friday.  All students may bring in Valentine cards and/or candy to pass out to all 25 classmates as well.

City Beautiful will continue to sell lollipops and candy-grams after school for $0.50.

Remember that this Wednesday, February 12th is a Late Start Day.  The first bell will ring at 9:35 a.m.  Breakfast will not be served in the classroom that day.  Students who would like breakfast can go to the cafeteria at 9:00 a.m.

Students should be visiting the www.xtramath.org website as often as possible.  The class goes to the website every Monday in Enrichment with Ms. Distelrath, but students should be going to the website to practice their basic facts as often as possible at home too.  Tonight’s math homework is going to the website for one session of practicing math facts.

Spelling words (/air/ and /ore/):  stairs, airplane, upstairs, adore, ignore

Bonus words:  pulley, ramp, wedge, quadrangle, polygon

City Beautiful is selling Valentine lollipops and candy-grams after school for $0.50.

Snow School Spirit Wear is on sale!  All orders and money are due by Friday, February 14th.

Our class Valentine’s Day party is on Friday, February 14th in the afternoon.  There is a sign up sheet posted outside our classroom of items we are looking to be donated.  Students may bring in Valentine’s cards for the class.  A letter will come home today with the names of all students in our class.

Report cards for the second card marking are coming home with your child today.

Spelling words (/sce/ and /nse/):  nonsense, descend, cleanse, dense, crescent

Bonus words:  parallel, intersecting, angle, degree, opinion

Thank you to all of the students and families that attended Mr. Walters surprise concert last Thursday evening.  He was very surprised and appreciated all of the hard work the students put in to make a wonderful concert.

This week we will be starting Unit 6 in Math on geometry.  We will explore line segements, rays, lines, angles, parallel lines, intersecting lines, 2-dimensional shapes, and 3-dimensional shapes.  Please continue to visit the www.everydaymathonline.com website and ask your child daily what they are learning in school.

We are continuing our 3 minute multiplication tests.  Students should be practicing their facts every night in order to pass the particular test they are on.  We have taken 6 tests so far and there are some children you are still on their factors of 2.  It is very important that children study at home and memorize these multiplication facts because we will be learning 2 digit multiplication later in the year.

The class has completed our study of the history of Michigan.  Now we will be moving onto government in Social Studies.  We have also completed our study of forces in Science.  Therefore, we will begin studying rocks, minerals, and earth’s resources.

Please continue to have your child read at least 20 minutes every night and fill in their Student Reading Logs every Monday-Thursday.  In order for students to improve their reading, they must continue to read at home as well as at school.  You can vary they way your child reads.  One night they can read to themselves, another night they can read to a parent or brother/sister, another night you can have them listen to reading.  Students can access the Tumble book website at home to do listen to reading.  Go to www.tumblebooks.com/library.  The username is “snowelem” and the password is “books”.  This is a great way to hear examples of fluent readers!

If school is closed this week due to bad weather, please continue to practice multiplication facts, spelling words, and read at home with your child.