February 8th Update

Upcoming Events

2/11 Mid quarter grades go home

2/14 Valentine's Day Party 2-3

2/18 No school

3/1 Prairie Branch Carnival

4/4 Kindergarten enrollment from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.


Midterm
The midterms will come home today stapled in planners. Please sign and return the bottom section.

Valentine's Day Party
Our Valentine's Day party is next Thursday from 2-3. On Thursday, if you choose, your student can bring a box or special bag to put their valentines in. I will also provide bags for any students who does not bring a container. We will being passing valentines out during the party Thursday. Class list was send home at the beginning of the week, please let me know if you need an additional copy.

Word Work Rotations
We started our word work rotations this week. After the midyear word work test in January students where placed in new groups based on their new scores. Every Monday and Friday they will switch to their word work rooms. Tuesday-Thursday they will practice their words in our classroom with a partner from their group.

Reading
The students worked with their non-fiction books to determine importance. Each students was given a non-fiction reader, which they shared with a small group. The students looked at text features to collect interesting facts about their books. Next week we will continue to work with determining importance. We will also work with fluency by reading poetry and reading in pairs.

Math
This week the students worked with doubles in multiplication. We also practice recognizing how multiplication facts are used in everyday life. We will continue to work with multiplication next week and start connecting multiplication to division facts. We are also continuing our Friday multiplication times tests.

WritingThe students completed their five paragraph essays this week! Today they were able to read and share their essay with the class. The essays will be displayed in the hallway to show off their hard work.

Science:
The student were able to learn about different types of organism based life cycles including the human, frog and plant life cycles. Next week we will use the information we collected to find the similarities in plant and organism life cycles.


THANK YOU FOR THE GUM DONATIONS!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs. Ray