Good Afternoon,
January is almost done and we are hitting our stride again after the break! I just love coming to work each morning and seeing your kiddos faces smiling and so happy to be here! Thank you for sending them to school ready to learn each and every day! I wanted to share with you all (your student may have already) but over winter break I ran a campaign on a website called DonorsChoose.org. It’s a website that allows educators to create a GoFundMe type of page to purchase resources for the classroom. My campaign raised just over $1500 for me to purchase some flexible seating options for the classroom. We now have 12 seat discs, 2 yoga ball chairs, 8 wobble chairs, 2 student rocking chairs, and 15 new headphones! I do need to prepare a thank you for all of the donors, it’s required by the website, so I will be sending a few photos of students using the materials to the company for them to distribute to the donors. If you would prefer your child to not be included please send me an email to let me know by February 1st. My reminder list will be a bit longer tonight simply because I have not sent an email home in a few weeks. Thank you for your understanding! Academic information will be at the bottom! A couple of reminders:
Flood Hour: Flood math and reading time is focused on skills specific to your student. We alternate daily between the focus being on math or reading. Your student should be able to tell you the skill their group is working to master in order to improve their iReady test scores. Math: We are moving through unit 4 and will finish it on February 11th. Students took quick quiz #2 to assess their skills for 3 digit addition this past week. Those will come home next week. We will have quick quiz #3 on February 8th and unit assessment on the 10th. During this unit we are working on rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand. We are targeting addition and subtraction with 3 digits and finding different ways to solve the problem using grouping. Literacy: We are moving right along in literacy. We focus weekly on standards: this past week we focused on the standard of being able to find the main idea and key details to support in a non-fiction text. Your students are reading a lot of material during the week. As it comes home it would be great practice to keep it for rereading which increases fluency and comprehension. We started novel literature circles this week, we will meet every Friday to discuss their weekly reading assignment and job. Depending on your child’s group they are reading either Bud, Not Buddy, Frindle, Lemonade War, A Snow Day from the Black Lagoon, or have a book baggie of books. Writing: During writing on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we are working on an informative unit. We currently are practicing researching penguins and your students are loving it! They were so engaged and excited to do their very own research this week! This coming week we will turn their facts into a paragraph and then transition into researching a planet of their choice! Content: We started our science unit when we returned from winter break. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we are studying the solar system and all the parts and pieces that contribute. As you can imagine this unit is very engaging and students often have a lot to contribute from their own knowledge! As always please feel free to reach out if you have questions or concerns. Email works best but if you need to chat by phone or schedule a conference please let me know! Have a terrific weekend! Jessica Van Thorre
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