We celebrated Dylan's eighth birthday with cookies on Friday! She is such a smart, sweet, spunky girl - I just love her to pieces. Happy Birthday, Dyaln!
Mya brought in her adorable kitten, Monte, on Friday! He was so cute and calm that I wish he could have stayed all day! :)
Also, Tyler brought his adorable gecko, Simon, in all day on Tuesday, but I forgot to take a picture! Rats! She was super cute and it made me want to get one for Bennett! :)
This week in reading, we are in week three of our new Wonders series. I am really liking it so far! We will read "Room to Grow" and "Gary the Dreamer." All of the stories we will read, as a whole group and small group, this week will be autobiographies. I love how the Wonders series focuses on exposing students to new, different genres every week. The vocabulary words we will focus on this week are: admires, classmate, community, contribute, practicing, pronounce, scared, and tumbled. We will be doing Week 3's spelling words, which are words with a final e. Our pretest will be on Monday and then our post test will be on Friday. You can access the week's words on Spelling City (your child has his/her login information in their planner). The specific skills we will be working on this week are asking and answering questions, sequence events in a story, and compound words.
In math, we will continue on with Chapter 2: Representing and Interpreting Data. Last week we spent a lot of time working on reading and creating Picture Graphs. Students learned the importance of reading the key!!! This week we will be working hard on reading and creating bar graphs, as well as working on different problem solving skills that go along with graphs. Two students have already completed the addition portion of Xtra Math -- way to go Tyler and Grant!!! Remember that students can access ST Math, Front Row, and Xtra Math at home.
In science, we have talked in-depth about the different parts of a glider: fuselage (body), wings, and the horizontal stabilizer. We have also discussed about the difference between powered and unpowered aircraft. Ask your child if they can tell you the difference! This week, we will use the ipads to design our gliders and then hopefully we can begin constructing our gliders.
In social studies, we will use some issues of Scholastic News to work on our reading strategies while learning about some interesting current events.
We finished our first read aloud, "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane." We have now started reading another novel by that same author (Kate DiCamillo) called Because of Winn Dixie. Ask your child if they can tell who the main character/narrator is, as well as the setting of the book!
Lastly, if you are interested in placing a bid on our Fish Bowl, please email with your highest bid by Sunday evening. Due to rainy weather, the auction is not taking place on Saturday at Saturday Live, but we have live fish that need to find homes ASAP! Thanks for your support! Remember ALL the money we raise stays right here at Arrowhead and helps every grade level!
Have a great weekend! See you Monday!
Code Word = Bar Graphs
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