Tuesday

Hope you enjoyed a nice long weekend with your kids! :)

FYI:
Book Fair info coming home in Wed. folder tomorrow
No Chorus this week
March 2 is "Read Across America Day".  If you would like to come in and read a short children's book (about 5 min. long) to our class, we'd love to have you! I will try to work around your schedule; however, I only have my homeroom from 7:45-8:15 and 11:30-1:30.  Please email me with questions or if you'd like to participate! If you'd like to send in your favorite story that you and your child like to read, do that and I can read the story or your child can to the class! :)

Math:
Today we spent more time practicing fraction problems with word problems.  Most of the students did well, but we still need to practice!
HW: do practice problems from their review guide - test on THURSDAY

Reading:
Today we started a new unit on character's actions.  We got into small leveled groups and read a really funny play.  Students and I discussed how and why the character's actions changed from the beginning of the story to the end.  Then each group was able to present the poem.  Too cute!  We also read from our read-aloud and copied down the new vocab words this week.  We will be back to normal and using each vocab word in a sentence correctly for the test on Thursday.
HW: define vocab by using a dictionary or dictionary.com (students were encouraged to take home one of my dictionaries if they did not have one at home)

Science:
Today we began our new unit on Heat, Light, and Electricity.  We just focused on heat today.  We did a few experiments and had lots of great discussions about how heat is produced, friction, etc.  The students did a great job! I also helped them with 'note-taking' to get some key ideas from their reading in the KCCT book. Lastly we answered some questions to wrap-up heat in our science journals and I helped the students restate the question in their answers.
NO HW

Writing:
Today we continued with our poetry unit and wrote Sound poems.  They were really good! I can't wait to compile all our poems together in our book!
No HW
Have a great night,