Spelling Homework

For the remainder of the year the students are able to pick their favorite spelling assignment for their daily homework.
They can choose from these items......
3 times each, spelling pyramids, spelling story, spelling sentences, grouping the words into a sort, ABC order, or anything else they may come up with to help them proactice their words every night

Honor Roll Assembly

Honor Roll Assembly is scheduled for Friday, March 26th at 9:00am!!! Hope to see you there!!!

Parent Teacher Conferences

Parent Teacher conferences are coming up after break. Please sign and return the confirmation form ASAP. Conference times were sent home on Monday, March 9th. If the tme doesn't work for you, list some possible times available for you. Thank You!!!

Seussical

Ask you student what they have been working on in Music class over the past few weeks. There are many fun events planned for the week of March 1st. Don't forget to come to the school, Thursday, March 4th for our Seussical!

Review and More

While continuing to learn new material, the students will be reviewing concepts from the beginning of the year up until now. Please help them clear the cobwebs out to reach prior concepts learned earlier in the year.
Have them practicite lots of measurement conversions, telling time & elapsed time, look at fractions, and just keep quizzing them on math facts.
Please continue to read with your students, have them read to you and/or younger siblings.

Lon Po Po

In reading this week, we will be reading a Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood. If possible, read Little Red Riding Hood at home with your kids this week. It will help us to compare and contrast the stories.

Measurements

As you can tell, we have been studying measurements in math class. Help keep the kids refreshed and involve them in measuring things at home. Encourage them to read amounts on foods and have them help you bake or cook foods. Practice helps keep their minds sharp.

Ancient Greece Celebrations

On Friday, January 22 at 1:15 the students will be participating in Ancient Classroom Olympics. Some events will include the Straw Javelin Throw, Paper Plate Discus, and some running races. Following the Olympics we will have a small snack of cheese, olives, grapes, and bread. Please join us for our celebrations.
Volunteers and Food NEEDED!!! Food - string cheese, loaf of bread, grapes, oranges, and olives

Last Week in Ancient Greece

Our class is reading about Ancient Greece in The Magic Tree House Research Guide - Ancient Greece and the Olympics. Ancient means very old. there were two very important city states called Sparta and Athens. We're also learning aobut Greek people and gods and godesses.
Written by KA and TB

Two Weeks Ago.....

In math we learned about flips (reflections), slides (translations), and turns (rotations). It was fun moving shapes. We learned about skooners and machetes from our story Cocoa Ice. We also learned about trading from our story and that was also a Social Studies standard.
Written by CC and RR

MATH FUN

Mrs. McClure is making new fun changes in math centers. Our teacher will be teaching divisions. She will teach us hands on activities. We will study fast facts.
Written by: KA, RR, CC, and TB

Ringing in the New Year

Welcome back to School! This year I am going to make sure the website is updated!!! The kids will be assisting me with this project. Their will be a group of students that will write a weekly summary of the week and then it will be posted.
They started out today by writing about some changes for math.