Thank you for all the wonderful valentines, help with Multiplication Madness and our Amazing Field Trip!
Teaching: Mrs. Goldsberry
Important Dates to Remember
Book Fair will be held all week in the Q1 Gym
Mon. Feb. 19th: President’s Day (No School)
Tues. Feb. 20th: Parent Teacher Conferences
Grown Ups and Goodies
Wed. Feb. 21st: STEM
Thur. Feb. 22nd: Parent Teacher Conferences
Library (Don’t forget your Library Books!)
Fri. Feb. 23rd: Dollar Dress Down Day
Early Out Schedule
Daddy Daughter Dance
We want to thank everyone who donated and helped set up, serve and clean up our Multiplication Madness Party. Without all of you, the party wouldn’t have been the huge success that it was. FYI mastering multiplication is not a thing of the past, we will continue to work on our fluency of the facts by doing timings and passing them all off again, but this time we will build stamina with 5 minute timings. Don’t worry, we have a lot of fun activities to help us build our fluency.
A huge thanks goes out to all the parents who took the time out to go on the field trip with us! It was a huge success and we’re sure all involved had a fabulous time. If you have a few pictures you would love to share with us, for the end of year video, please send them in an e-mail and we’ll be sure to add some of them to the collection.
Parent Teacher Conferences
We are so excited to meet with each of your and your student. We have updated many of the assessments we gave at the beginning of the year, and can’t wait to share this information with you. We will also be sharing our plans for them the rest of the year.
In addition to the conferences, the book fair is open all week. The hours for the book fair are before and after school, with a fun Grown Ups and Goodies on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. It will also be open during conferences.
Reading
We will be continuing with last week’s strategies and skills of context clues, cause and effect, and rereading using a new text. We will also use the same text to form an opinion and then write about what we think. This is a fairly new type of writing for our students and we’re excited to watch them develop into fabulous opinion writers..
Math
We are delving into equivalent fractions and comparing fractions. These are very difficult concepts as they appear to be concrete until the denominators get involved and then they’re very abstract. We are also working on mastering all of the concepts we have introduced and learned so far this quarter. We will be giving each parent a print out of exactly where your student is in this mastery at Parent Teacher Conferences.
Homework
Homework for the week has not changed. Reading is the MOST important part of homework. 20 minutes of good solid reading is so important for your child’s fluency and comprehension. Daily reading increases a child’s vocabulary by copious amounts when reading for just 20 minutes a day. It is also amazing how quickly his/her vocabulary acquisition decreases as the time read decreases.
Along with the 20 minutes of reading, we have a new tool to help us with our comprehension and may be done at home as often as possible. The students know know to use the site, and it takes about 15 minutes to complete a full session. Just click on this link:
imaginelearning.com
We are involved in the Greg Tang Olympics. There is a code on the Google Classroom Dashboard that the kids may add to and work on tonight. The competition ends tomorrow. We will go back to Prodigy Game and Frontrowed on Wednesday.