February 20 - February 24

Hello!

Thanks so much for attending your child's conference!  It's a team effort to make sure your children are learning as much as they can to reach their fullest potential.  I truly appreciate all of the support you are giving them at home to help them prepare for the upcoming state assessments.  I know they'll do GREAT! 

REMINDERS!!
Please send a sack lunch with your child on Tuesday, February 21.  We will be attending the symphony during our lunch time so will eat when we return at 1:00. 

Please send a food dish with your child on Thursday, February 23rd.  Your child should come to school dressed in clothing that portrays their ancestor's country for the all school International Festival which will showcase their hard work over the past few weeks!

Please send a plain, white t-shirt by Friday, February 24.  We will design our own team jerseys for our KSA Super Bowl! 

Reading
We will begin with Theme 10 this week and will carry it out over the next three weeks. Our strategy focus is reviewing author's purpose along with comparing and contrasting information. We are stretching it out over the next few weeks as we are not allowed to do any other reading on the days the students take their state reading assessment.  We will still use our small group time to practice strategies that will help them on their assessments.

Spelling
Our Rigby words this week are brother, food, inside, atlas, sneeze, index, contents, data, edge, lunch, penny, summer, title, source and information.  Our prefix pattern is: trans-, which means across or through.  Our words are transatlantic, transcontinental, transcribe, transect, transfer, translate, translucent, transparent, transpiration and transport.  The test for both lists will be on Friday.

Writing
The students will be writing an autobiography for their published book this year.  We will begin those after our International Festival this week.  Look for more information regarding this soon!  :)

Math
Division!! The students did a fabulous job on our first division test.  We are currently studying fact families with division and multiplication facts.  We will have a test over Chapter 8 next week. 

Social StudiesThis week is the big week!  We have our International Festival on Thursday, February 23.  There will be an all school assembly from 10:00-10:45 in the morning with sampling various food from our countries and a chance for the different grade levels to learn more about our countries in the afternoon.  The students will showcase their hard work from 2:15-3:30 in the cafeteria.  Thanks so much for all of your help with this big undertaking.  We couldn't have accomplished it all without YOU!