Weekly Update 3.27.18

By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 27, 2018

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Be on the Lookout for…

• Tuesday Folders will not home today, but you will receive a flyer for the Spring Carnivowl which will be April 27th!
• Ellis Island Day is TOMORROW  Wednesday, March 28th. Yay! Students should arrive dressed and ready for our activities. If you have any questions, please message me.
• Our celebratory Multiplication Master ice cream sundae party will also be Wednesday, March 28th at 2:45.  Students will submit their “ticket” to see how many scoops and toppings they have earned over the past few months. Please see sign up genius link for ways you can make this party a huge success.
• Thursday, March 29th is a snow makeup day for students. Please let me know if you will NOT be here so I can plan accordingly:) Spring Break runs Friday the 30th through April 9th. I hope you enjoy this much needed break! word- woohoo
• Mrs Vaughan wish list: I could currently use some 8.5 X 11″ sized thermal laminating pouches! Thanks for considering:)
• Spring (individual) photos came home last week. If you want to keep them, send payment for what you keep. Specific pricing and info should be on the envelope. If you don’t want to keep them, please send entire photo set back. Class photos that were pre-ordered will be in soon. I’ll send them home right away!
• 2nd graders in our school are working on an exciting service project until April 13th. Please see how you can help out and make a difference here.

This week in Literacy:

Students took their end of 3rd quarter reading assessment this week. They are bringing these home TODAY for corrections to be returned Thursday this week. I am sending parents an answer key via Class Dojo so you can check behind your child for accuracy. Many students did not use the PARTY strategy (preview, analyze q’s, read, take out bogus answers, yellow/underline evidence) or rushed through this test. Please have them reread the passages and take their time choosing the better answer.

They also spent last week and this week practicing a reading skill called Notice and Note to make us deeper thinkers and overall better readers. We will read a different story each day and decide which notice and note skills we are using. The amazing books students will delve into this week are: The Bad Seed, Abigail the Whale, The Dark, I Want My Hat Back, Quickest Kid in Clarksville, and Train to Somewhere. We will also review Storm in the Night and The Matchbox Diary.

Students continued a new read aloud last week and will be spending a big chunk of March and April reading The Wild Robot. They are really loving it and are learning to look into more challenging stories for deeper understanding and bigger problems. Students do not need their own copy, but may enjoy getting one of this, or it’s sequel- The Wild Robot Escapes.

This week in Math:

Students will review for and take their end of 3rd quarter math assessment on Tuesday this week.

Students are finishing a lengthy, but exciting Fractions unit. Lots of vocab is important in understanding this concept. Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes

Current vocab: numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model

Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus, arrays, repeated addition, area, perimeter, rectilinear area, commutative property (flip flop rule), number line, product, distributive (break apart method), associative property, graphs, pictographs, bar graphs

A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year can be found here

This quarter in Social Studies: We begin an Immigration Unit to reach SS objectives in the following areas.

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