Week of March 12th

Dear parents,
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed some extra time with family on student led conference days. I am pretty happy we now have water again, as many of you also are. I wanted to say thank you again for taking the time and being wonderful listeners to our students as they share their work, ways they want to grow and set a goal to work on at home with you. I was very proud of how they communicated with only a little prep and being a bit nervous. Thank you again, we have had more wonderful readers come in to help us read and decide on our favorite Picture book for March Madness picture book challenge.

Run, jump throw is on Thursday if you would like to come and watch. The kids have a really fun time in the morning rotating stations on the field. 

Important Dates:
Monday day 3-PE
Tuesday day 4-WL
Wednesday day 5-PE
Thursday day 6-RUN JUMP THROW 8:15 AM, MUST bring hat and water bottle and be in comfortable running shoes. Library also today.
Friday day 1-Swimming

Language Arts
Students are researchers this week reading about their healthy choices topic and using that information to create their last nonfiction piece. This will be their On Demand piece, so the students will be doing this without teacher or peer help and it will be assessed at the end of the week. I will send it home for you to view and them to share with you what they learned.

Math
We are just getting into this unit that is primarily only number and operations and looking for patterns. The class has gotten more comfortable adding strings of 2 digit numbers and communicating their strategy. We are now focusing on adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers, showing different strategies, explaining our thinking clearly and learning from others. Our assessment will be just before Spring Break.

Science
Yucky germs and bacteria were the topics of discussion this week. We explored the different kinds of germs, how they enter your body and how your body protects itself. The students broke off into groups and did some of their own research on bacteria and presented to the class for Wondering Wednesday. We will finish up this unit before spring break and the class will be creating items for the refugee school to learn about healthy choices.