Odds and Ends:
*New Student: We welcomed a new student, Gayathri, to our room last week. We are so thrilled to have her with us!
*January Pride Award: This month we honored Evi Zervas with the Empathy award. Evi goes above and beyond to help her classmates and teachers. Great job, Evi!
*Valentine's Day: Our classroom Valentine's Day party will be Thurs. 2/12 at 1:30-2:20 (since we have no school Fri. 2/13). If your child would like to distribute Valentine cards/treats to his/her classmate, here are our class guidelines:
1. It is optional, but if you want to distribute, you must have enough for all students in class. We have 21 students (10 boys and 11 girls)
2. It is much easier to pass out if the individual student names are not on the cards.
3. No nuts, please!
Spring conferences are coming up the week of February 9. These are by teacher request only. I have 16 conferences already scheduled. If you feel that you would really like to sit down with me and chat, please email me. Please know that I am always available via email or phone. Have a great weekend!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Tues. 2/3: Matter Matters Presentation
*Thurs. 2/5: Math: Ch. 7 Test
* Fri. 2/6: Spelling Test
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK:
*Reading: We will continue our look at culture and traditions. We will work on the skills of theme and main idea/details, as well as compare and contrast. The students are doing a fabulous job during our Daily 5 rotations!
*English: We will continue to work with figurative language and adjectives.
*Spelling: We will have another week of spelling with a pretest Monday, homework due Thurs, and the final test on Friday.
*Science: We will continue to work on ch. 11: Matter. Our matter presentation is Tues. 2/3. We are looking forward to doing fun experiments with a real scientist! The end of the unit test is tentatively schedule for Tues. 2/10. A study guide was sent home with your child.
*Social Studies: Culture Day presentations were amazing and we learned so much about each other! Thank you for spending so much time and effort in making the project a success! We will continue our study of ch. 3 as we look at immigration and the Ellis Island experience. Our test is tentatively scheduled for Fri. 2/20. A study guide will be sent home.
*Math: We began our ch. 7 unit on Division concepts. We will focus on the skills of division as equal sharing and repeated subtraction. We will focus on the relationship between division and multiplication. The test will be on Thurs. 2/5. A practice test will be sent home Wed.
Our focus for fast facts this week is 4's multiplication. Students must pass their 4's x facts by Fri. 2-6. Thank you for keeping up the good work studying facts at home!
Thanks for checking in the blog this week!
Mrs. Olsen
