Newsletter 2/24- 3/7

Here is the plan for the next 2 weeks:

Next week is SEP week. Hopefully you received a note with a time and a date. If you haven't received the appointment time, please let me know. School will be getting out everyday (including Wednesday) at 2:30 p.m. I look forward to meeting with you all!

Unit Study- Our unit study has been placed on hold in order to finish keyboarding. I am planning to pick up our "Moon Unit" by the end of this week. With our new testing outline, the students will now be required to type at least a paragraph on the writing portion of the test. This will require that our students practice extra hard on keyboarding. Thank you for being so patient with the keyboarding homework. After today, the students only have 3 more left! After the 20 lessons are complete, we will still practice keyboarding with our in-class writing assignments.

Daily 5- As usual. Our Daily 5 writing will be focused on opinion writing for the next several weeks. We are also working on vocabulary and dictionary skills during this designated time.

Spelling Bee- Our class representatives are Kirstin, Boston & Damien as the alternate. Congratulations!

Math- The students did an excellent job on our division chapters. Fractions will be our next area of focus.
Times Tables- We are working to pass the remaining times tables off. I will let you know next week where your child is at.

Have a great week!

Valentines Party

Next week we will be making Valentine packets for the students to collect their classmates' valentines. If you would like to send Valentines with your student, please have them bring them in on Friday the 14th. On that day, we will have our "Mini Mall" and pizza party in the afternoon.

Here is our class list:

27 students

Luke
Jacob
Mia
Xander
MiMi
J.J.
Kirstin
Kasia
Annika
Kooper
Melbourne
Jake
Noah
Boston
Parker
Garron
Lelia
Heidi
Damien
Avery
Owen
Daxton
Dylan
Isaac
Catie
Keisha
Michelle