I took a picture of the kids wearing their hats and holding with their stuffed animals.  Naturally, the picture didn’t upload so that I could put it on my blog today.  Stay tuned for a picture next week.

So sorry…Several times I remembered that I needed to post the spelling words for the week.  Of course, those times were at 10:00 at night!!

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Welcome March!

March is READING MONTH and your child is bring home some information about activities here at Howard.  Please feel welcome to sign up to read to our class.  Sigh up sheet is in my room.

Here’s what’s happening in our room next week…

READING/WRITING –Narrative Writing!  We will write a story ( a narrative) about a penguin that gets lost.  Hummmm  It will include the 4 elements of any story-character, setting, plot/problem, and solution.  

SPELLING-The students’ scores really came up this week in Spelling.  Every day, they each worked with a partner practicing the words.  I modeled how to help another student learn something.  As you can tell from their tests, I am being particular about the correct way to form (write) letters.  Backward letters count as a mistake.

MATH-We are moving along with composing and decomposing numbers to 10.  Good strategies going on in here.  I love to watch all of this happen.  The growth and thinking is impressive!

By the way, ALL of my students went up in both READING and MATH on the NWEA!!  So very proud of each of them.  Thanks again for all you do to support them.

Let Them Be Little

“Let them be little

cause they’re only that way for a while.

Give them hope,

give them praise,

give them love,

every day.

Let them cry, let them giggle,

let them sleep in the middle.

Oh, just let them be little.”

Have a good weekend.

Mrs. Smith

Parents,

Since March is reading Month, I would like to invite you (grandparents, too) into our classroom to read for 10-15 minutes.  We love stories, any stories!  Please stop in at your convenience and sign up for a time.  Tuesday am and pm and Friday pm are not available.  All other days are available with times from 9:00-9:15 or 2:45-3:00.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Mrs. Smith