Newsletter 2-23-18

Our Weekly Learning  2-23-18
News and Information We will celebrate Dr. Seuss next week with lots of reading and special dress up days. Monday- Hat Day (Cat in the Hat) Tuesday- Pajama Day (Sleep Book) Wednesday- Wacky Clothes Day (Wacky Wednesday) Thursday- Crazy Hair Day (Hooray for Hair) Friday - Crazy Socks Day (Fox in Socks) Our classroom is in need of a few items:  Play-doh (small containers-any color), glue sticks, and crayola markers
Language Workshop Our focus this week was on President’s Day. We read about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We identified main idea and key details in each book. We reviewed fiction and non-fiction and assessed on being able to identify the difference. We also practiced using prefixes and identifying the meaning of a word with a prefix.	Math Workshop This week we learned about graphs. We learning how to collect data, make tally marks, and read the data in a graph. We practiced answering many questions about the data.  We wrote number sentences to help us compare how many more and fewer. Today we assessed the last part of topic D.
Writing Workshop This week we reviewed writing bold beginnings and excellent endings. We practiced adding these to an already writing narrative and opinion piece.	Next Week Next week we will begin a unit on maps. We will switch from prefixes to suffixes. In math we will begin Topic 4.  Topic 4 will focus on place value, comparing, and addition and subtraction to 40.
Important Dates 2/26- Dr. Seuss Week 2/28- Cox Care Mobile 3/9- End of 3rd Quarter/Read-a-thon 3/12-3/16- Spring Break Next week the cafeteria is hosting a competition.  The class that has the most kids eat school breakfast will earn a free Rice Krispy Treat and the class that has the most kids eat school lunch will earn a free slushie.