Sunday, March 7, 2021

Weekly Update 3/8-3/12

Hello, everyone!

Here are this week’s announcements..

*New sight word lists will be sent home on Wednesday. Our next spelling test will be Wednesday, March 17. 

*We have class pictures on Thursday, March 11th. Fun newsEVERYONE will receive a FREE class picture this year!  Students will also have individual pictures taken, and you can purchase those pictures if you’d like. Picture purchase envelopes were sent home last week, please check your child’s OWL folder for that.

*Yearbook order form envelopes are due Friday, March 12. Please check your child’s folder for the envelope form.

*We have a Science unit coming up that requires every student to have 1 empty paper towel roll. As you finish up a roll of paper towels, please send the empty roll in with your child.

*WE NEED GLUE STICKS!  Thanks to those that have sent in glue sticks! We are running low on glue sticks. I would appreciate any donations of glue sticks for our class. Thank you in advance for your help!

*Spring Break is the week of March 22-26.  School resumes on Monday, March 29.

Literacy

*Good readers can use non-fiction text features and details to identify the main idea.

*Good readers know the difference between a main idea and a detail.

Mathematics

*Adding and subtracting double digit numbers

Introduction to regrouping (fancy way to say borrowing and carrying over  😊)

Word Study/Grammar

*Vowel team phonics/spelling pattern (“When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking”)

*Past tense verb rules/spelling

Unit (Social Studies and/or Science)

*What are symbols that represent our country?

*How do we make decisions in our country (voting)?

Writer’s Workshop

Informational writing