Well, we are coming back from a wonderful winter break and heading right into a three day weekend! This schedule sure spoils us sometimes!

Announcements:

Chapter book sand a book report will be sent home with students on Tuesday. Assigned homework will be to read 20 minutes of the chapter book each night, and when the chapter book is completed students are to complete the book report. The book report is to be done by Monday 2/6, but if  your child finishes the book and completes the report they are able to turn it in early. The expectation is that students complete two book reports for the third quarter.

We are starting to run low on Expo Markers, if you have any extra at home, our classroom would really appreciate it! Thank you to those of you who heard your students complaints this week and sent some in!

Some pictures from this week:

Math game! Making 100!

Finding out if our sense of smell is related to our sense of taste!

French!

Here is a look at the upcoming week:

Language arts: This week in literature we will be reading from our new book, The Cricket in Times Square. If you have not already please send the book in with your child. We will discuss what it is like to move from one place to another. We will also have a group discussion about a time we wanted something really badly and our parents wouldn't let us have it. I will be asking the kids if they were able to talk their parents into it, or if they realized why their parents told them no. We will read chapters 1-3 in the book and continue to discuss the characters as they are introduced. Ask your student how Paul the shuttle conductor was nice to Mario! In grammar we will continue to diagram sentences. In writing we will use our prewriting map from last week to write a rough draft of a paragraph on our favorite colors!

Math: Next week we will continue our unit on mental math! The students are doing a wonderful job on this challenging unit! We had a great discussion and came to the conclusion that mistakes and challenges make our brains learn best! Next week we will be working on adding and subtraction two and three digit numbers mentally.

History: This week, we will continue exploring Ancient Greece. The students will learn about famous Greek battles, as well as the golden age of Greece. Ask your child to tell you about the Athenian symposium.

Science: Next week students will learn how all living things are made up of microscopic cells. We will describe the relationship among cells, tissues, organs, and systems. Ask your scientist about the body systems at home!