Good Afternoon! With the impending snowstorm, many of the items we were planning to work on this week, may be moved to next week. These are my hopes for this week!
*On Thursday, we have a 12:20pm Early Release. Students will not be eating lunch at school. As usual, we will have snack in the morning.
*Please remember to sign up for Parent/Teacher Conferences online starting this week. Sign-ups will begin on Monday, March 13th at 3:30pm and be open until March 20th. The sign-up link will be posted on the Robinson website Monday afternoon.
*Please remember to sign up for Parent/Teacher Conferences online starting this week. Sign-ups will begin on Monday, March 13th at 3:30pm and be open until March 20th. The sign-up link will be posted on the Robinson website Monday afternoon.
*Last week, began Unit 7 in Math. Our focus will be on Fact Families. A fact family is made up of two addition facts and two addition facts. For example:
2+3=5
3+2=5
5-2=3
5-3=2
We will also begin to work on key math vocabulary the class needs more practice with:
*sum
*doubles facts
*turn around facts
*difference
*number model
*addition
*subtraction
You will notice Fact Triangles going home as homework this week. Tomorrow you will receive an explanation sheet on how to use Fact Triangles to build fact families. Please use these Fact Triangles at home to build student's fact family fluency. They do not have to return these triangles to school. We have sets we will use in class.
*In Spelling, we will work on words with -ir- in the middle. We will also review the words "said" and "what." Finally, this week students will learn my song to teach the power word "BECAUSE." Ask them to teach you this song on Monday night!
*I hope to finish our unit on Famous Americans this week. We will learn about Ruby Bridges. On Friday, I sent home the "My Famous Person" project for students to complete. These projects are due back to school any day the week of March 20th. Just a reminder, the person chosen should NOT be a famous person. Rather the person should be someone your child knows that possesses the same qualities or character traits of the famous Americans we learned about in school.
*Many students are coming home with chapter books at this point in the year. Often, I only give one or two chapters to read each night. Sometimes, the students have to answer a question or add information to a sticky note if included in the assignment. It's important that students only read the assigned pages or chapters. This will give us opportunities in our reading group to make predictions without some students knowing what will happen next. Also, it's important that students return their books the next day. I'd rather them return their books and be able to participate in our group even if they didn't have a chance to read the night before. I don't always have an extra book to share if someone forgets their book. Thank you!
*Thank you to all parents that have sent in donations of materials we need in our classroom. We will no longer be accepting donations of Clorox Wipes. The district is in the process of ordering us cleaning supplies that are better suited for the kiddos to use. We will use our supply of Clorox Wipes through the end of the year, but they will handled by adults only.
You will notice Fact Triangles going home as homework this week. Tomorrow you will receive an explanation sheet on how to use Fact Triangles to build fact families. Please use these Fact Triangles at home to build student's fact family fluency. They do not have to return these triangles to school. We have sets we will use in class.
*In Spelling, we will work on words with -ir- in the middle. We will also review the words "said" and "what." Finally, this week students will learn my song to teach the power word "BECAUSE." Ask them to teach you this song on Monday night!
*I hope to finish our unit on Famous Americans this week. We will learn about Ruby Bridges. On Friday, I sent home the "My Famous Person" project for students to complete. These projects are due back to school any day the week of March 20th. Just a reminder, the person chosen should NOT be a famous person. Rather the person should be someone your child knows that possesses the same qualities or character traits of the famous Americans we learned about in school.
*Many students are coming home with chapter books at this point in the year. Often, I only give one or two chapters to read each night. Sometimes, the students have to answer a question or add information to a sticky note if included in the assignment. It's important that students only read the assigned pages or chapters. This will give us opportunities in our reading group to make predictions without some students knowing what will happen next. Also, it's important that students return their books the next day. I'd rather them return their books and be able to participate in our group even if they didn't have a chance to read the night before. I don't always have an extra book to share if someone forgets their book. Thank you!
*Thank you to all parents that have sent in donations of materials we need in our classroom. We will no longer be accepting donations of Clorox Wipes. The district is in the process of ordering us cleaning supplies that are better suited for the kiddos to use. We will use our supply of Clorox Wipes through the end of the year, but they will handled by adults only.
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