I wish you a Happy Valentine's Day and thank you all for your warm wishes and lovely gifts. I feel very loved. We started off our week leading the Lower Division Town Meeting with hellos in different languages. What a good job the students did!
This week is a four day working week, with Friday being a Teacher Workday. On Tuesday is the Relay for Life Luncheon and students can wear their purple tops (to represent cancer awareness). Remember there is no SAGE lunch on this day, so if you did not order a hot dog, please pack your child's lunch. Tuesday is library, so please remind your child to return all checked out books. On Wednesday is the Science Teacher-In, led by parent volunteers.
Current Events begins this week. Your child should be able to tell us what source the news article was found (e.g. St Petersburg Times), the date it was written, along with the main idea and some supporting details they found. I encourage your child to read the article several times, so they are able to express themselves clearly when it is their turn to share.
We are doing a review in language arts this week and working on our biographies. So far we have read about George Washington Carver, M.C. Walker, Thomas Edison, and Cyrus McCormick to name just a few of those amazing individuals who have made a difference in the world. The students are reading biographies and learning to summarize important facts about these individuals in a graphic organizer. They are also discovering that a biography is a narrative about a real person, event or thing and told in a series of events in sequential order.
Your child is working on learning to spell their own personal list of words this week. Please help them learn these words at home, which will be tested on Thursday. We will review adjectives in grammar and continue learning the lower case cursive letters.
In math, the focus this week will be on reviewing solution strategies for subtraction of 2-digit numbers, developing readiness for multiplication, learning to use multiplication as a way to find the total number of things in several equal groups, and learning to solve multiplication problems using multiplication diagrams and array models.
We will continue with our exploration of Asia and erosion in science.
I wish you a happy and successful week.
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