Hello Families,

Last call for for Family-Teacher Conferences this week: Wednesday, January 29th or Thursday, January 30th! Please sign up here if you haven’t yet!

There will be no school this Friday, January 31st.

Please also be sure to sign our Class Valentine’s Permission slip here. I look forward to celebrating with them!

This week, we are finishing our math standard on dividing fractions. Students are working hard to determine which number in a story problem is the number being cut up, split up or divided, and into how many groups v. the size of those groups. They are also learning about the reciprocal nature of multiplication and division with regards to fractions. Tutoring for this subject will be held next week by invitation only.

In ELA we are going to be studying character perspective and point of view in a story, while visualizing what is happening in the story as we read. We will be considering the question, “What can you discover when you give things a second look?” and have some fun reading plays.

Finally, in science, we are learning about the conservation of matter, or in other words, the amount of matter stays the same, even when matter changes form.

In the coming weeks, we will be reviewing all the things we have learned so far this year. We will also begin practicing for the state RISE assessments by taking benchmark tests in all subjects. As you can see, students are learning and growing a lot. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Hope to see you soon!
Mrs. Shaw